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Article Contents
- Formatting your monitoring station script for a plug-in service monitor
- Changing the check_temp script for use within a plug-in service monitor
- Creating the XML definition for your plug-in service monitor
- Importing and managing your XML plug-in monitor definition
- Adding Instances of your plug-in service monitor
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Overview
This article is part of a series:
Part 1 - Creating Custom Service Monitors in up.time
Part 2 - Creating Custom Service Monitors with Retained Data Collection
Part 3 - Creating Plug-in Service Monitors in up.time
Plug-in service monitors allow you to add service monitors directly into the up.time interface. You can use plug-in service monitors to check, alert on and graph your own custom application or business metrics. Plug-in in monitors have the following benefits:
- Plug-in monitors enable you create more meaningful graphs with customized headings for your retained application and business metrics.
- They are installed directly into the up.time interface, beside the standard up.time service monitors. Your plug-in monitors are as transparent as other monitors to your end users.
- Creating instances of your monitor much easier using a standard service monitor template that you define. Once you create your monitor template you never have to remember the exact arguments or location of your custom script, they are included right in the interface automatically.
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