Maybe reinventing the wheel, but I've been searching this site and online in general for a way to get notified if my BI computer goes down (without needing another computer/device on same network).
Finally, found honeybadger.io that has a limited free account setup for monitoring. I created a "check-in" service on honeybadger that watches for a heartbeat at whatever interval you want, down to 1 minute, and sends either/both an email/text alert if the heartbeat isn't detected.
Using a curl API command on my BI machine setup as a "cron" in Task Scheduler to contact honeybadger on schedule.
Tested, and works well. Easy to setup. I've seen other similar cloud monitoring services, but this one was the first I could find that had an easy explicit way to set up a heartbeat on a local machine, and was FREE...
Anyway, just FYI as a fairly simple solution...
Finally, found honeybadger.io that has a limited free account setup for monitoring. I created a "check-in" service on honeybadger that watches for a heartbeat at whatever interval you want, down to 1 minute, and sends either/both an email/text alert if the heartbeat isn't detected.
Using a curl API command on my BI machine setup as a "cron" in Task Scheduler to contact honeybadger on schedule.
Tested, and works well. Easy to setup. I've seen other similar cloud monitoring services, but this one was the first I could find that had an easy explicit way to set up a heartbeat on a local machine, and was FREE...
Anyway, just FYI as a fairly simple solution...