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Azure Logic Apps provide tools for automating workflows.
So, if you want to monitor your website, you’re able to do that.
And that’s what we are going to do in this article.
We will attempt to send out a return signal every quarter-hour to an endpoint.
You should already have a personal Gmail account.
In the config blade, you should provide a name for the App.
We can move on to configuring the probe.
For the Method, select “GET.”
For URL, enter the endpoint that you will be probing.
If you’re monitoring an entire website, you should select your site root.
It can look like this:HTTP://www.yourdomain.com.
Set the “Frequency to Minutes,” and change the interval to “quarter-hour (15).”
This has created an HTTP GET request for the root domain, which will occur every 15 minutes.
At this point, you should start to tell the Logic App what to do when the probe occurs.
But under “If Yes, Do Nothing,” grab the “Add An Action” option.
You will have to sign-in to your account for Logic App to authorize access to the account.
choose your account, and grant permission.
You will now be able to configure the message that will be sent via Gmail.
To do this, scroll to the top of the workflow, and hit the “Save” button.
Now the workflow will execute every 15 minutes until you stop it or delete it.
Go back to the setting blade on the left, and poke the “Logic App Designer” button.
Save it, and click “Run.”
After a moment, the actions will be executed.
see to it to revert the changes, so that you don’t leave them as they are.
Even though this is a simple approach to website monitoring, Logic Apps is significantly more powerful.
Logic Apps do come at a cost, and that’s on aper execution basis.
The first 250,000 executions are priced at .0008 cents each, so that’s quite affordable for small-scale operations.
