MONITOR REDIS DOWNTIME WITH C LANGUAGE

Monitor Redis downtime in your C application

Redis is a versatile in-memory data structure store that serves various purposes, including acting as a database, cache, and message broker. At Palzin Track, we frequently employ Redis in our backend services, using it as our primary cache layer to enhance the performance of compute-intensive workloads.

Nonetheless, like any service, Redis is susceptible to downtime and outages due to numerous factors, such as network issues, hardware failures, and human errors. In many instances, Redis downtime can be a critical problem, leading to performance degradation or complete service disruptions. These issues can result in a subpar user experience and potential revenue loss.

Consequently, monitoring Redis downtime within your application becomes crucial to ensure uninterrupted user experiences. Fortunately, Palzin Track simplifies the process of tracking these events, making it effortless for our team to keep an eye on Redis downtime.

With Palzin Track, we can seamlessly monitor Redis and other services in our application. We achieve this by closely monitoring the status of our Redis connection within the application. If the service experiences downtime, we promptly trigger an event in Palzin Track. This ensures that our team receives instant notifications when Redis encounters downtime, enabling us to take immediate corrective actions.

Connect Palzin Track to C

Setting up Palzin Track

1. Sign up for a free Palzin Track account.
2. Create your first project from the dashboard.
3. Head to settings and copy your API token.

C code snippets

To track your Redis downtime, you can use the following code snippet Please don't forget to replace the YOUR_API_TOKEN with your API token and update the project and channel names.

Using C with libcurl

CURL \*curl;  


CURLcode res;  


curl = curl_easy_init();  


if(curl) {  


 curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");  


 curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://api.palzin.live/v1/log");  


 curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1L);  


 curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_DEFAULT_PROTOCOL, "https");  


 struct curl_slist \*headers = NULL;  


 headers = curl_slist_append(headers, "Content-Type: application/json");  


 headers = curl_slist_append(headers, "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN");  


 curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, headers);  


 const char \*data = "{\"project\":\"my-project\",\"channel\":\"status\",\"event\":\"Redis is down\",\"description\":\"Redis has been down for the last 5 minutes\",\"icon\":\"🚨\",\"notify\":true}";  


 curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, data);  


 res = curl_easy_perform(curl);  


}  


curl_easy_cleanup(curl);

C integration details

Palzin Track is a powerful, real-time event tracking tool that works seamlessly with C. With Palzin Track, you can set up event tracking for anything important to your team and monitor them in real-time.

In addition, you can set up custom charts, insights, and dashboards to visualize your data and make it easy to understand. Palzin Track also provides powerful features such as cross-platform push notifications, event filtering, user and product journeys, and more.

Palzin Track provides a generous free plan to get you started with event tracking. You can also check out our pricing page to see our paid plans. So please give us a try and let us know what you think!

Other use-cases for Palzin Track

1. Monitor your CI/CD build status for your C application
2. Monitor your CPU usage in your C application
3. Monitor when database goes down in your C application
4. Monitor high disk usage in your C application
5. Monitor when a user changes their email address in your C application
6. Monitor failed logins in your C application
7. Monitor failed payments for your C application
8. Monitor memory usage in your C application
9. Monitor MySQL downtime in your C application
10. Monitor when a new feature is used in your C application
11. Monitor your Postgres downtime in your C application
12. Monitor suspicious activity in your C application
13. Monitor when a user exceeds the usage limit for your C service
14. Monitor when a user is being rate limited in your C application
15. Get a notification when your C code is done executing
16. Send push notifications to your phone or desktop using C
17. Track canceled subscriptions in your C application
18. Track your C cron jobs
19. Track when a file is uploaded to your C application
20. Track when a form is submitted to your C application
21. Track payment events via C
22. Track user sign in events in C
23. Monitor user signup events via C
24. Track waitlist signup events via C