Published on October 12, 2022

Monitor high disk usage in your cURL application

Monitor high disk usage in your cURL application

When building cURL applications, we often end up dealing with persistent data in one way or another. This can be a simple JSON, CSV, or text file on disk, uploading files to cloud storage such as S3 or Google Cloud Storage, or even storing data in a database such as MongoDB or MySQL. In all of these cases, disk usage is a critical aspect of our cURL application and can significantly affect the user experience.

Therefore, monitoring our cURL application's disk usage is essential, whether in the local environment or somewhere in the cloud. This is critical as going over a certain threshold can cause our application to crash or become unavailable, resulting in a significant loss of revenue and user experience.

LogSnag is a powerful event tracking tool that works seamlessly with cURL and makes it trivial to track any important event in our cURL application in real time. For example, one common use case for LogSnag is tracking disk usage in real-time and setting up rules to notify our team and us when our disk usage has exceeded a certain threshold. This way, we can always be aware of the performance of our application and take immediate action if needed.


Setting up LogSnag

  1. Sign up for a free LogSnag account.
  2. Create your first project from the dashboard.
  3. Head to settings and copy your API token.

cURL code snippets

Use the following code to connect LogSnag to your cURL application and track disk usage: Please replace the YOUR_API_TOKEN with your API token and update the project and channel names.

Using cURL with cURL
curl --location 'https://api.logsnag.com/v1/log' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN' \
--data '{"project":"my-saas","channel":"status","event":"High Disk Usage","description":"The disk usage is high.","icon":"💾","notify":true}'

cURL integration details

In addition to real-time event tracking, LogSnag provides powerful features such as cross-platform push notifications, event filtering, user and product journeys, charts, insights, and more. Via LogSnag, you can get better insight into your cURL application and track anything important all in one place and in real time.

We strive to make event tracking simple and accessible to every developer and team. Therefore, we have worked hard to create the next generation of event tracking tools. As a result, LogSnag is flexible and easy to use, making it a great companion for your cURL applications.

Other use-cases for LogSnag

  1. Monitor your CI/CD build status for your cURL application
  2. Monitor your CPU usage in your cURL application
  3. Monitor when database goes down in your cURL application
  4. Monitor when a user changes their email address in your cURL application
  5. Monitor failed logins in your cURL application
  6. Monitor failed payments for your cURL application
  7. Monitor memory usage in your cURL application
  8. Monitor MySQL downtime in your cURL application
  9. Monitor when a new feature is used in your cURL application
  10. Monitor your Postgres downtime in your cURL application
  11. Monitor Redis downtime in your cURL application
  12. Monitor suspicious activity in your cURL application
  13. Monitor when a user exceeds the usage limit for your cURL service
  14. Monitor when a user is being rate limited in your cURL application
  15. Get a notification when your cURL code is done executing
  16. Send push notifications to your phone or desktop using cURL
  17. Track canceled subscriptions in your cURL application
  18. Track your cURL cron jobs
  19. Track when a file is uploaded to your cURL application
  20. Track when a form is submitted to your cURL application
  21. Track payment events via cURL
  22. Track user sign in events in cURL
  23. Track user signup events via cURL
  24. Track waitlist signup events via cURL
View all common use-cases with cURL