Hello all,

Our developers have built a new website which displays the results of a process which monitors a bunch of custom values within our application. So we can hit a URL internally that will display either "success" or "failed: ERROR TEXT". I can easily monitor this page with an HTTP Advanced sensor to determine whether or not the application has passed it's internal checks. However, I would like to have the ERROR TEXT included in the notification email somehow.

Is there some way to do this? Can I pull text from a webpage to include? For that matter, can I include text from a file? The second question occurs to me after seeing the "store latest HTML result" option under the HTTP Advanced sensor settings, which would place the error message in a text file on the monitoring server.

Thanks for any suggestions!

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Dear Brett,

you can try using the %message-placeholder to include the sensors message in the notification. But otherwise it's not possible to include anything else in an email-notification. Only maybe links to the particular website itself, or to the sensors logfile.

best regards.


Aug, 2011 - Permalink

I ended up using the "store latest HTML result" option to place the needed message in a text file. Then I set up an EXE notification which would run bmail.exe (a freeware, command line SMTP client) to send that text file to the proper email address.

As a feature request, it would be nice if the email notifications had an option to include a file attachment. I could think of a few different situations where this would be useful. But for now this solution works for us.

If anyone can think of a more elegant solution I'd love to hear it.

Thanks.


Aug, 2011 - Permalink