Published on July 5, 2022

Track payment events via PowerShell

Track payment events via PowerShell

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 PowerShell 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.

PowerShell code snippets

Using PowerShell with RestMethod
$headers = New-Object "System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary[[String],[String]]"
$headers.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
$headers.Add("Authorization", "Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN")

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

$response = Invoke-RestMethod 'https://api.logsnag.com/v1/log' -Method 'POST' -Headers $headers -Body $body
$response | ConvertTo-Json

PowerShell integration details

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