apify

Mobile alerting with tracking & escalation for Apify

S4_Apify_Integration

 Why SIGNL4

Notify the responsible users or teams quickly and reliably about critical errors and changes on websites. This could be user experience issues on websites detected through RPA.

Apify is a platform where developers build, deploy and monitor web scraping and browser automation tools. Pairing Apify with SIGNL4 can enhance and automate your daily tasks with an extension to your mobile team no matter where they are.

 How it Works

Sending alerts to your SIGNL4 team from within Apify is straightforward. SIGNL4 is available as an Actor in Apify and you can directly use it within the Apify platform.

 Integration Capabilities

  • Service engineers are reliably and persistently alerted via mobile push, text and voice call
  • Simple connection to SIGNL4 via Actor (via HTTP Post)
  • Targeted mobile notifications with tracking and automatic escalation
  • Enables immediate response to critical states, which means significantly shorter response times
  • Real-time visibility across teams into incident status and accountability on mobile devices
  • Employees can acknowledge critical events as they occur and assign responsibility
  • Alerts can be enriched with additional details
  • Mobile app for Android and iPhone
  • Integrated on-call scheduling for automatic alert routing to the right people at the right time

 Scenarios

  • Workflow automation
  • DevOps
  • IT operations
  • Service Management
  • IoT
  • IT, Manufacturing, Utility, Oil and Gas, Agriculture, etc.
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Events in Apify are sent to SIGNL4

Event categorization, routing and automated delivery

Persistent Notifications by push, text and voice call with Tracking, Escalation and Confirmation to Staff on Duty

HOW TO INTEGRATE

The SIGNL4 integration is available as an Actor in Apify.

Sending automated alerts from Apify has several benefits. Users can react to critical situations quickly and to take according action. Here come some sample use cases:

  • Alerts on certain Actor states, e.g. failures
  • Web scraping alerts, e.g. if a web page changes or if a certain value or price reaches a threshold
  • Use Robotic Process Automation (RPA) to monitor your web workflows and alert admins if a workflow fails (before your customers will recognize)
  • Integrate with other tools including AI (ChatGPT, LLMs) to create powerful alerting workflows

SIGNL4 is a mobile alert notification app for powerful alerting, alert management and mobile assignment of work items. Get the app at https://www.signl4.com.

Prerequisites

A SIGNL4 account

An account at Apify

apify-actors

To run the actor in Apify simply create a new task for the actor by clicking the green button above, modify the actor input configuration, click Run and get your results.

Send alerts
You can trigger an alert using a webhook from another Actor, e.g. when the Actor reaches a certain state. You obtain the webhook URL of the SIGNL4 Actor at API -> API endpoints. The Payload template might look like follows:


{
"userId": {{userId}},
"createdAt": {{createdAt}},
"eventType": {{eventType}},
"eventData": {{eventData}},
"resource": {{resource}},
"secret": "your-signl4-team-or-integration-secret",
"title": "Web Scraper Alert from Apify",
"data": {{eventData}}
}

 

Alternatively, you can trigger the alert within the code of another Actor like this:


import { Actor } from 'apify';
await Actor.init();

// Send SIGNL4 alert
await Actor.call('roncz/signl4', {
secret: 'your-signl4-team-or-integration-secret',
title: 'Web Scraper Alert from Apify',
message: "Web scraper content available.",
data: headingObject
});

await Actor.exit();

You can find more information at https://apify.com/roncz/signl4.

 

ALERT OPTIMIZATION
SIGNL4 can further increase the visibility of alerts through its Signals and Services section. Augmenting the color and icon of alerts will provide more relevant information at a glance without having to open the alert.

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Change alert color and override title + text 

Override text, colors and titles are triggered by keywords set within the mobile app.

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