Question

Measuring downtime for your app

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Dear Mendix community, is there a widget or a different way available to measure downtime of your apps? This could be due to e.g., the application being off, technical issues etc., ultimately resulting in the app being either non-responsive or unreachable by the user. Preferably there's a distinction between planned and unplanned downtime and the possibility to generate reports from the statistics. Thanks in advance! Greetings, Tijmen Verwoert

asked 2017-10-13

Tijmen Verwoert

3 answers

🚴René van Hofwegen🎓 · Answer 1 · 2017-10-13

Measuring downtime of the app cannot be part of the app itself. Since the app is down, it cannot record it.

So the solution should be found in the monitoring of the app.

Stephan Bruijnis · Answer 2 · 2017-10-13

Create a second app that polls the first app (for example: each minute a rest service call to the first app). If the first app responds with a 200 OK you know it is working. You could also let the first app publish a health check microflow and respond with a more detailed response. By registering maintenance periods in the second app you can stop polling during that period, or ignore any error responses.

Ronald Catersels · Answer 3 · 2017-10-13

But it would be nice if the Mendix cloud itself would measure this. They know all the blank spots in the metrics of the app. Still not 100% correct because as stated the app could be online and still not function. File a feature request?

Regards,

Ronald