MONITOR USAGE THROTTLING WITH SHELL LANGUAGE

Monitor when a user is being rate limited in your Shell application

When working on a Shell application, managing throttling is a common necessity. Throttling involves restricting the number of requests a user can make to your application, a crucial measure when dealing with high user volumes. For instance, consider a Shell application enabling users to upload files; it's prudent to set a limit, like allowing users to upload a maximum of 10 files per minute. Such limitations serve to prevent potential misuse of your service.

Monitoring when throttling is triggered in your Shell application is of utmost importance. It can indicate issues in your implementation or even hint at users attempting to exploit your service. Thus, it's essential to establish a robust monitoring system to detect throttle triggers and promptly notify you and your team when irregularities occur.

Palzin Track proves to be an invaluable tool for addressing this challenge. It simplifies the process of tracking events within your Shell application, making it effortless to monitor throttle occurrences. As an example, you can employ Palzin Track to track the event of a user uploading a file and set up alert rules to notify you when a user reaches the ten-file limit. This approach empowers you to stay informed about user activity and respond effectively when necessary.

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 and paste the following code into your Shell project. You are required to replace the YOUR_API_TOKEN with your API token and update the project and channel names.

Using Shell with Httpie

printf '{"project":"my-project","channel":"limits","event":"User is being rate limited","description":"User has uploaded more than the allowed amount of files","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":"User is being rate limited","description":"User has uploaded more than the allowed amount of files","icon":"⏱","notify":true}' \  


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

Shell integration details

When designing Palzin Track, we aimed to create the most simple yet flexible event tracking tool possible. We wanted to make it easy for developers to integrate with their Shell applications and to start tracking events in no time.

Today, Palzin Track is what we believe to be the next generation of event tracking. It works excellent with Shell and provides powerful features such as real-time event tracking, cross-platform push notifications, event filtering, user and product journeys, charts and analytics, and much more.

Palzin Track provides a free plan to get you started with event tracking, and we can't wait to see how you use it. So please give it a try, and don't hesitate to reach out to us if you have any questions or feedback!

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 exceeds the usage limit for your Shell service
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