8th June 2025

Most of us use a VPS to run our buying and selling EA’s 24/7, however monitor if these terminals are up and working? 

What in the event that they crash, or shut-down as a consequence of an replace? How do I get notified about that? 

That is the place our Heartbeat Monitoring comes into play. 

It offers you a 24/7 monitoring for all of your terminals & VPS. 

So, what do we’d like for that?

1. A free-of-charge consumer account at Cronitor, knowledgeable monitoring service

2. The Heartbeat EA supplied by my accomplice at Stein Investments, Alain Verleyen

We use this technical resolution to observe our important backend infrastructure, so it is confirmed dependable and helpful.

Within the following tutorial, I am going to present you configure your good server and terminal monitoring resolution.

Step one is to register without cost on the Cronitor Sign-up page

sign-up

As soon as logged-in efficiently we choose the part “Heartbeats”

sections

On the the underside or proper facet of the heartbeat overview you will discover a “Fast configuration” possibility

heartbeat_config

Configure it in Three easy steps as seen within the instance under.

quick_config

As soon as created you will get your distinctive Telemetry URL for this monitor.

telemetry_url

This Telemetry URL accommodates the API Key and Heartbeat Key

url_details

which need to be inserted into our Heartbeat EA as seen under

heartbeat_keys

Lastly, now we have to permit your MetaTrader terminal to speak with Cronitor

So please add the URL https://cronitor.link to the listing of allowed URLs as seen under.

urls

Now it is all completely arrange, and your terminal sends the Heartbeat to Cronitor

heartbeat_terminal

heartbeat_cronitor

So what occurs in case your terminal does NOT ship the following heartbeat inside 60 seconds?

1. You may see it within the Cronitor standing

cronitor_issue

2. You may get an e-mail to the tackle you used on the sign-up

mail_issue

3. And you may mechanically get an e-mail as soon as your terminal is again and on-line

issue_solved

That is it. Your terminals is now continuously sending Heartbeats to your monitoring service and this service informs you instantly as soon as a Heartbeat is lacking.

You too can edit your Monitoring settings anytime

Edit_Monitoring

and add a Grace Interval in case your Heartbeat is only a bit delayed

grace_period

We’re positive you will like this resolution to observe your buying and selling terminals and also you’re at all times welcome if there are questions left.

All the very best

Daniel & Alain


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