Most of us use a VPS to run our buying and selling EA’s 24/7, however the way to monitor if these terminals are up and working?
What in the event that they crash, or shut-down attributable to an replace? How do I get notified about that?
That is the place our Heartbeat Monitoring comes into play.
It offers you a 24/7 monitoring for all of your terminals & VPS.
So, what do we want for that?
1. A free-of-charge person account at Cronitor, an expert monitoring service
2. The Heartbeat EA (MT4 Model / MT5 Model) supplied by my companion at Stein Investments, Alain Verleyen
We use this technical answer to observe our vital backend infrastructure, so it is confirmed dependable and helpful.
Within the following tutorial, I will present you the way to configure your good server and terminal monitoring answer.
Step one is to register without spending a dime on the Cronitor Signal-up web page
As soon as logged-in efficiently we choose the part “Heartbeats”
On the the underside or proper aspect of the heartbeat overview you will discover a “Fast configuration” choice
Configure it in 3 easy steps as seen within the instance under.
As soon as created you will get your distinctive Telemetry URL for this monitor.
This Telemetry URL accommodates the API Key and Heartbeat Key
which need to be inserted into our Heartbeat EA as seen under
Lastly, we’ve to permit your MetaTrader terminal to speak with Cronitor
So please add the URL https://cronitor.hyperlink to the record of allowed URLs as seen under.
Now it is all completely arrange, and your terminal sends the Heartbeat to Cronitor
So what occurs in case your terminal does NOT ship the subsequent heartbeat inside 60 seconds?
1. You may see it within the Cronitor standing
2. You may get an e-mail to the tackle you used on the sign-up
3. And you will mechanically get an e-mail as soon as your terminal is again and on-line
That is it. Your terminals is now continuously sending Heartbeats to your monitoring service and this service informs you instantly as soon as a Heartbeat is lacking.
You can even edit your Monitoring settings anytime
and add a Grace Interval in case your Heartbeat is only a bit delayed
We’re positive you will like this answer to observe your buying and selling terminals and also you’re all the time welcome if there are questions left.
All the very best
Daniel & Alain