Now monitoring my websites with Google Spreadsheets and Pushover

I used a previous version of this free monitoring tool, but I recently setup their new version. It is quite neat. Basically, it uses Google’s infrastructure to constantly hit your website and if it doesn’t get a 200 status back, it will contact you via email or SMS saying your site is down. While this was nice, I really wanted to use Pushover more. So I looked through their API and discovered it is very easy to send messages. So I modified their script and now I get notifications via Pushover. Here are the changes that you need to perform.

1. Add two new rows after the SMS notifications row.
2. Call the title’s what you want, but I went with “Pushover API Token ::” on A5 and “Pushover User Key ::” on A6.
3. I created a new Pushover app
4. I put the new app’s API token in B5 and my user key in B6.5. Go to Tools | Script editor…
5. Then add the following code to the function logMessage(url, message) funtion in the script after the email portion:
   if (sheet.getRange(“B5”).getValue() != “”){           var options = {               ‘method’: ‘post’            };    var url = ‘https://api.pushover.net/1/messages.json?’     + ‘token=’ + sheet.getRange(“B5”).getValue()    + ‘&user=’ + sheet.getRange(“B6”).getValue()    + ‘&message=’ + alert    + ‘&title=’ + “Site ” + message;    var response = UrlFetchApp.fetch(url, options);        }