Dashboard Pack - Uptime Robot

This article describes how to download a specific dashboard pack. You can download dashboard packs from dashboards.squaredup.com and learn more about how dashboard packs work here: Dashboard Packs

Description

Uptime Robot is an uptime monitoring platform, providing a free tier to create up to 50 free monitors for Website, SSL, Port and Ping, as well as heartbeats to monitor reoccurring jobs. This dashboard gives an overview of monitoring configured using Uptime Robot’s website monitoring features.

What do the individual tiles show?

Response Times (Bar )	Displaying current response times for our web tests
Status (Status Block)	Showing health of tests, URL, and response time
Configuration (Grid )	Displaying configuration for the tests

How do I import and configure this dashboard?

1. Ensure you're using SquaredUp DS v5.4 or above.

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2. Create a Web API provider to connect with your Uptime Robot environment.

   Use the following settings:

   Type	Simple auth
   Name	UptimeRobot Note: The name is case-sensitive and must be entered exactly like given here for the tiles to recognize the provider automatically. If you name it differently, you will need to select the provider manually for each tile on the dashboard.
   URL	Enter the base url for the UpTimeRobot API i.e. https://api.uptimerobot.com/v2/

   How to create a Web API provider

   1. In SquaredUp DS navigate to the right-hand menu ☰ > system > Integrations

   2. Under Integrations click on Web API and choose either Simple, Basic Auth or OAuth depending on the API you are using.

      About the different types of Integrations and Web API providers

      Simple	No authentication, basic authentication (username and password in a header) or Windows authentication (configured automatically to use the application pool identity account).
      Basic auth	Basic authentication. Your specified username and password will be Base64 encoded automatically.
      OAuth	Token-based authentication according to the OAuth 2.0 standard. Many APIs use OAuth 2.0 for authorization, and will require an OAuth provider to include the additional information about how to authorize against the service.

      Note: When adding an OAuth provider you may get an message that the provider is not authorized if some of the provider configuration is incorrect (for example the username, password, secret etc), or if you use a proxy it could be that the proxy is not configured. See How to configure SquaredUp DS to use a proxy.

   3. Complete the provider fields, using your API provider's online documentation as a guide.

      ignore invalid ssl: Turn the on/off switch to on if you are using a self-signed certificate.

      default headers headers sent with all requests using this provider, for example the API token in the format the API requires.

      url parameters url parameters sent with all requests using this provider. For example, a query parameter that is always used can be added here in the provider to save adding it to every dashboard configuration.

   4. You are now ready to use this provider in a Web API tile (see How to use the Web API tile).

3. Download and import this dashboard pack.

   How to import a dashboard pack

   1. Download the dashboard pack zip file for the dashboard pack you wish to import.

      There may be additional steps before or after the import to get the dashboard working in your environment.

   2. In DS for SCOM go to the top right hand menu ☰ > Import Dashboard Packs and drag the zip file into the Manual Import box.

       

      

   3. The dashboard pack is imported and if the pack contains top-level dashboards, these will automatically appear in the navigation bar, usually in a folder called 'Community Dashboards' for dashboard packs from the SquaredUp Community. If the dashboard pack also contains perspectives (see Working with perspectives), then you'll see these when you drilldown to the relevant object.

   4. Carry out any additional steps required to make the dashboard work in your environment. These steps will be described on the download page for each dashboard. For example, you may need to create the correctly named Web API provider, create a PowerShell profile, or edit tile scopes.

   5. Edit the imported dashboard as required.

4. Add your Uptime Robot API key to the tiles.

   For the tiles to work with your Uptime Robot environment, you need to add your API key to each tile.

   1. Edit the tiles by clicking the Edit button.

   2. Open the headers & data panel.

   3. Enter your Uptime Robot API key in the data field in the following format:

      Name	Value
      api_key	Your Uptime Robot API key, see UptimeRobot Rest API documentation Note: If you've added the api-key as a URL Parameter in the Uptime Robot provider you should remove the api-key data field from each tile in this dashboard.
      format	json
      response_times	1

5. Publish the dashboard.

   How to publish a dashboard

   A newly created dashboard will not be visible to others until it is published.

   Only admins can publish dashboards, unless you have been given author permissions to a Team Folder see Team Folders

   If you made changes to an existing dashboard, the changes will only be visible to others after you published the dashboard again.

   You can identify a dashboard that has not been published yet or has unpublished changes by the unpublished button at the top:

   

   When you click on the unpublished button, you'll have two options:

   • Publish will make the dashboard or changes visible to others.
     Note: A newly created dashboard will appear on the menu where you created it. To move the dashboard to a different place on the navigation bar see How to edit the Navigation Bar.

   • Discard will delete your draft dashboard if it has never been published or, if you made changes to an already published dashboard, discard the changes.

   Publishing dashboards to different audiences

   Find out how to publish dashboards to a subset of users using Team Folders or visible to anyone even unlicensed users with Open Access (Sharing Dashboards with anyone - Open Access).