The Freshstatus-Freshping integration helps you update the staus of your services automatically. It can and also create real-time incidents in Freshstatus whenever a Check goes down or the performance of the Check degrades.
Table of contents:
Setting up the Freshping Integration
To integrate Freshstatus with Freshping follow the steps mentioned below in your Freshstatus account;
- Login to your Freshstatus account
- Navigate to Settings > Integrations
- Choose the Connect button against Freshping
- Provide the Freshping URL and Freshping API Key and click "Authorize". That's it, you are into creating the Rules.
Note: You need "Freshping Account URL" and "Freshping API Key" in addition to setting up a Webhook in your Freshping account.
Where can I find my Freshping account domain?
- Login to your Freshping account
- Navigate to Settings > Account Settings in your Freshping account, where you can find your Freshping account domain name or in short Freshping URL
Where can I find my Freshping API key?
- Login to your Freshping account
- Navigate to Settings > Account Settings
- Your API key can be found under 'Your API key'
How to configure a Webhook in Freshping
- Login to your Freshping account
- Navigate to Settings > Integration
- In the Webhook section, click '+Create integration'
- Paste the Webhook URL copied from Freshstatus and click on 'Create'
How to configure rules
You can add your own rules to create incidents in Freshstatus when a Freshping check goes down or degrades.
- Go to Settings > Integrations > Freshping
- Click on '+ New rule' to add rules and set up the integration
- Clicking '+New rule' opens 'Rule information'
- You can do the following here:
- Give your rule and name
- Specify the conditions to run the rule under 'Condition'
- Under 'Action,' configure incident details like:
- Title and description of the incident
- Source from which the incident was identified
- The service components that should be updated their status
- Whether to notify customers or not
- Conditions for resolution
Once the rules are created Freshstatus automatically creates an incident when a Freshping check goes down or degrades.
How to temporarily disable or turn off the rule
- Log in to Freshstatus
- Navigate to Settings > Integrations
- Open the menu in the Freshping section (represented by three vertical dots) and click 'View rules'
- Toggle the switch to enable or disable the rule