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Last updated: 29 Mar 2018

travel-advice-publisher: Error Monitoring for Travel Advice Alerts

• An email alert monitoring script
  • https://github.com/alphagov/email-alert-monitoring/
  • This runs once every hour on the Production deploy server
  • It checks https://www.gov.uk/api/foreign-travel-advice.json and looks for all country updates within a specific window (from 2 days ago to 1 hour ago)
  • It then checks a dedicated inbox that has been subscribed to all travel alerts
  • If an expected update isn't present in the inbox, an urgent alert is shown in Icinga
  • This urgent alert triggers a phone call to the 2nd line/on called
    support team
• Application error monitoring in Sentry
• A healthcheck in email-alert-api
  • We use GOV.UK Notify to deliver emails
  • email-alert-api is the app which communicates with GOV.UK Notify
  • We have a healthcheck set up to ensure that email-alert-api can connect to GOV.UK Notify
  • If the healthcheck fails, an urgent alert is shown in Icinga