Published on July 5, 2022

Track payment events via OCaml

Track payment events via OCaml

When building a product or service that requires your users to pay for something, there are many ways that things can go wrong, such as delayed payments, fraud, or other such issues.

Thus, it is crucial to track these events in real-time and alert you and your team in the event of a problem.

LogSnag lets you track payment events such as User Subscription, User Purchase, User Cancellation, and User Redemption directly from your OCaml application.


Setting up your account

  1. Create a free LogSnag account.
  2. Create a new project on your dashboard.
  3. Copy your API token from the settings page.

OCaml code snippets

Using OCaml with Cohttp
open Lwt
open Cohttp
open Cohttp_lwt_unix

let postData = ref "{\"project\":\"my-saas\",\"channel\":\"payments\",\"event\":\"Successful Payment\",\"description\":\"john@example.com - ($19.99)\",\"icon\":\"💸\",\"notify\":true}";;

let reqBody =
let uri = Uri.of_string "https://api.logsnag.com/v1/log" in
let headers = Header.init ()
|> fun h -> Header.add h "Content-Type" "application/json"
|> fun h -> Header.add h "Authorization" "Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN"
in
let body = Cohttp_lwt.Body.of_string !postData in

Client.call ~headers ~body `POST uri >>= fun (_resp, body) ->
body |> Cohttp_lwt.Body.to_string >|= fun body -> body

let () =
let respBody = Lwt_main.run reqBody in
print_endline (respBody)

OCaml integration details

Connect LogSnag to your OCaml code to easily track and keep a record of your product's payment events. With LogSnag, you can create simple charts and journeys to help you better understand your product. LogSnag also allows you to receive real-time push notifications on your desktop and mobile devices whenever a new payment event occurs.

Other use-cases for LogSnag

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