MONITOR USAGE LIMIT EXCEEDED WITH SHELL LANGUAGE

Monitor when a user exceeds the usage limit for your Shell service

In today's landscape, many services are adopting a pay-as-you-go approach, which can be based on either monthly usage limits or metered usage. This trend is particularly prevalent in cloud computing, software, and various online services. If you are developing a Shell-based service, you will likely need to establish your usage model and associated limits.

Irrespective of your specific implementation, it becomes essential to create an internal system for tracking usage and setting up notifications to alert you and your team when a user reaches their designated limit. This is a common challenge, as it provides valuable insights into how your users utilize your service, enabling you to enhance your product based on user behavior.

Enter Palzin Track, a service designed to offer real-time event tracking. It serves as an ideal solution for this task and seamlessly integrates with Shell. Palzin Track simplifies the process of transmitting events to your dashboard and facilitates push notifications whenever critical events occur.

For instance, consider a scenario where you are developing a Shell-based service that allows users to upload files, but you wish to impose a limit of ten uploads per user. Palzin Track comes to the rescue by enabling you to send events to your dashboard whenever a user uploads a file. Additionally, you can configure a rule to notify you when a user hits the ten-file upload limit. This functionality ensures you are promptly informed when a user reaches their designated threshold, empowering you to take further action as needed.

Connect Palzin Track to Shell

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.

Shell code snippets

Copy the following code snippet to your Shell project. Please note that you will need to replace the API token with your own.

Using Shell with Httpie

printf '{"project":"my-project","channel":"limits","event":"Usage Limit Exceeded","description":"The user has exceeded the usage limit for the service.","icon":"🚨","notify":true}'| http --follow --timeout 3600 POST 'https://api.palzin.live/v1/log' \  


 Content-Type:'application/json' \  


 Authorization:'Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN'

Using Shell with wget

wget --no-check-certificate --quiet \  


 --method POST \  


 --timeout=0 \  


 --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \  


 --header 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN' \  


 --body-data '{"project":"my-project","channel":"limits","event":"Usage Limit Exceeded","description":"The user has exceeded the usage limit for the service.","icon":"🚨","notify":true}' \  


 'https://api.palzin.live/v1/log'

Shell integration details

Palzin Track is a flexible and easy-to-use event tracking service that works excellently with Shell. In addition to real-time event tracking and cross-platform push notifications, Palzin Track provides powerful user journey tracking, simple event filtering, search, and analytic tools such as charts.

In addition to tracking usage events, you can also use Palzin Track to track other important events such as errors, user sign-ups, user logins, payments, or anything else you can think of.

Setting up Palzin Track with your Shell application takes a few minutes, and you can start tracking events in no time.

Other use-cases for Palzin Track

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