Testing notifications

[bbb]

Hi, I'm using the Publish API to create a system, which shows up on the dashboard. I then send a notification using curl:

 

https://api.pulseway.com/v1/publish -H Content-Type:application/json -u <user;key> -X POST -d '{"instance_id":"v7black","title":"Test error","message":"Running out of disk space","priority":"critical"}'

which gets a valid response: {"response_code":200,"error_message":null}

 

But I can't see any notification on the dashboard/mobile

The name/description/group I used in publish seems to have been lost

 

I put the publish again, and the group/description is back... however once the 'refresh interval' expires it greys out but there is no notification.

 

thanks for any pointers...

 

 

 

[Paul]

Hey there,

 

It seems to me that you are using the wrong endpoint: https://api.pulseway.com/v1/publish should only be used for Publish and https://api.pulseway.com/v1/notify should be used for Notify.

 

I believe that the reason you are getting a successful response (HTTP 200) is because they are allowing you to publish with empty contents. So if you specify a valid instance_id the publish will succeed. (@Pulseway: correct me if I'm wrong).

 

I just tested your request with the correct endpoint and it seems to be working here.

 

Paul

[bbb]

Thanks Paul - yes, I didn't notice that but it works fine now! 

 

Do you know about notifications if the refresh-interval expires?

[Marius]

An offline notification will be sent, please set the notify_when_offline to true as specified here:

http://www.pulseway.com/restapi/#publish

 

Once the instance goes offline it could take up to 15 minutes for the notification to be fired.

 

Marius

[bbb]

A couple more queries...

 

If I send a notification I can't see the title in the dashboard/mobile (but it does show on the email subject). On the dashboard I see the date/time and no reference to the title text at all.

If I send HTML tags they are ignored (or rather the tags are shown as text) in the description of the dashboard/mobile, but are interpreted as tags in my gmail - I'm guessing this is gmail's doing - but having some sort of text highlighting would be useful - is there any I can use?

[Marius]

You cannot send HTML tags - this is a push notification(s) limit and cannot be changed.

[bbb]

An offline notification will be sent, please set the notify_when_offline to true as specified here:

http://www.pulseway.com/restapi/#publish

 

Once the instance goes offline it could take up to 15 minutes for the notification to be fired.

 

Marius

 

 

Thanks but I can't see any mention of that - just this:

 

"next_refresh_interval_minutes": 5

[Marius]

Try refreshing the web page, we've just updated the documentation.

[bbb]

Perfect... thanks.

 

Re. the title of the notification - is that meant to appear on the dashboard notification?

[Marius]

Title is used for push notifications and email subject only.

 

Please use the message field as well for a more detailed description of the notification. This is the one that will appear on the Dashboard.