Run using WhatsApp Notifier

This tutorial, we will be sharing how to integrate Monika with Monika WhatsApp Notifier so that when there is a Monika incidents or recoveries alert, you will be notified via WhatsApp.

Setup Monika Whatsapp Notifier

First things first, you need to have a Monika WhatsApp Notifier webhook URL. Navigate to the https://whatsapp.hyperjump.tech and create your own webhook URL by inputting your name and phone number. After you submit the form, you will receive a notification to confirm your phone number.

Click the link that you received to confirm your phone number. After that, you should receive your webhook URL and a guide to set up your WhatsApp Notifier.

Save the Monika WhatsApp Notifier webhook URL to somewhere safe as we will need them later.

Configuring Monika with Webhook

Now that we have our Webhook URL, it’s time to create a configuration called monika.yml:

1 notifications:
2   - id: monika-notif
3     type: monika-notif
4     data:
5       url: https://YOUR_MONIKA_NOTIF_URL
6 probes:
7   - id: sample_login
8     name: Sample Login
9     requests:
10       - method: GET
11         url: https://github.com
12         alerts:
13           - query: response.time > 500
14             message: Github response time is {{ response.time }} ms, expecting less than 500ms
15           - query: response.status != 200
16             message: Github status code is not 200. Please check the service status!

Let me explain a little bit about this configuration:

• You need to set the notification channel in the notifications object. There are 3 properties: id, type, and data. Set idwith any string values, it’s just an identifier. Set type with monika-notif. Then put your WhatsApp notifier webhook URL in url key in the data object.
• Monika will be probing https://github.com and will send you an alert if the response time is greater than 500 milliseconds or the response status code is not 200, meaning the website is down

Now that we have our configuration ready, it’s time to run it with Monika. Go to the directory where you saved the Monika configuration, and run Monika straight away using monika -c monika.yml

Congratulations! Now that you have successfully integrated Monika with Monika WhatsApp Notifier, you will be notified if your website is slow or down via WhatsApp.