Freshping Zapier integrationAutomate Freshping with Zapier.
The Freshping Zapier integration gives you 1 trigger, 0 actions and 0 searches. One event, New Alert, and it is instant: Freshping calls Zapier as soon as an alert goes out, so your downtime warning lands in another tool right away, even on the free plan.
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What the Freshping Zapier integration actually does
Freshping watches your URLs and raises an alert when one goes down. The Freshping Zapier integration takes that alert and passes it to another app, with no one copying anything by hand. That is the whole deal: one event in, as many destinations as your plan allows. Freshping only speaks first here, it never receives anything back.
Three results come up again and again. A channel message: New Alert fires, and your on-call people see the outage where they already talk, instead of in an inbox nobody opens at night. A log row: the same alert becomes a line in a spreadsheet, which gives you a running history of incidents you can sort and count at the end of the month. A ticket: the alert opens a task in your project tool, so the fix has an owner and a status rather than a vague memory of "something broke on Tuesday".
Now the honest part. Zapier cannot do anything inside Freshping. There is no action, so a Zap (the automation you build on Zapier) cannot add a check, pause a monitor or close an alert. There is no search either, so a Zap cannot look up a past incident. Everything flows one way, out of Freshping. If your plan is to manage monitors from another tool, this integration will not get you there (and no amount of clever setup changes that).
The second limit is about what came before. A Zap only reacts to alerts raised after it is switched on, so last week's outages stay where they are.
If you are weighing other automation tools, the Freshping Make integration covers the same app on Make, and the Make vs Zapier comparison is the next read.
Zapier words, in one minute
Eight terms come back across this page. Each one gets a plain line here, and the rest of the page uses them as is.
- Zap
- The automation you build on Zapier. With Freshping it always reads the same way: New Alert first, then one or more actions that run on every alert.
- Trigger
- The event that starts the Zap. Here it is a Freshping alert. Once the Zap is on, Zapier simply waits for it.
- Action
- What the Zap does after it starts: the step that posts, writes or creates something in another app for you.
- Task
- What Zapier bills you for: one action that went through. Ten alerts sent to one Slack channel make ten tasks; the alerts themselves are free.
- Polling vs instant
- A polling trigger is checked on a timer. An instant trigger is reported by the app itself the moment the event happens. Freshping's is instant.
- Filter
- A step that lets the Zap continue only when the incoming data meets a condition you set, and stops it otherwise.
- Connection
- Your Freshping account linked to Zapier a single time, then reused by every Zap and every step that needs it.
- Multi-step Zap
- Any Zap with more than one trigger and one action. Add a filter or a second action and you need a paid plan.
What it really costs
Freshping is not a premium app, so it works on the free plan. The bill depends on actions, never on alerts waiting to be picked up.
- TriggerFree, never counted as a task
- Each successful action1 task
- Free plan100 tasks a month, two-step Zaps only
- Premium appNo, available on the free plan
The trigger itself costs nothing. Each action that goes through counts as one task, and an action that fails is not counted. The free plan gives you 100 tasks a month and unlimited Zaps, but each Zap stops at two steps: the Freshping trigger and one action. Add a filter to keep only some alerts, or a second destination, and the Zap becomes multi-step, which means a paid plan. The interval grid below applies to polling triggers only. New Alert is instant, so it fires at once whatever the plan.
Connect Freshping to Zapier in three steps
- 01
Open your connections
In Zapier, go to the Apps page of your account and click + Add connection. Before you start, make sure you have a Freshping account of your own: this page lists every account you link, and the Freshping one will sit there for all your Zaps.
- 02
Find Freshping
Type Freshping in the search box of the dialog, select it, then click Add connection. A new tab opens on the Freshping side so you can identify yourself there, not inside Zapier.
- 03
Sign in and allow access
Sign in to Freshping in that tab and grant Zapier access to the account. The connection then appears in your list, ready for any Zap. If the checks you want belong to a teammate, you also need access to them.
Your first Zap: critical alerts to a Slack channel
GoalPost a message in your on-call Slack channel each time Freshping raises an alert that matters, and drop the rest.
- 01
Create the Zap
Start a new Zap and pick Freshping as the app that starts it. Choose New Alert as the event, then select the connection you just made.
- 02
Test the trigger
Run the test. Zapier brings back the three most recent alerts of your account, so you can pick a real one and see which values it carries before going further.
- 03
Add the filter
Click the plus icon and add a Filter. Pick a value you saw in the test, set the rule and the value to compare with. Use a text rule for text: the wrong type is why a filter never passes.
- 04
Add the Slack action
Add Slack as the next step, choose the channel, and map the alert values from the trigger into the message so the on-call person knows what broke.
- 05
Test, then publish
Run each step once and read what came back. When the message looks right, click Publish. This Zap has three steps, so it needs a paid plan; drop the filter to stay free.
The Freshping trigger
1 event starts a Zap when something happens in Freshping, and one of them is instant: the app calls Zapier straight away, whatever your plan.
New Alert
Instant triggerIn Zapier“Triggers with every insping alert.”
Starts your Zap every time Freshping sends out an alert, usually when a monitored URL stops answering. Whatever the alert carries becomes available to the steps that follow, so you can drop it into a message, a row or a ticket.
When the Freshping Zap breaks
Freshping has no help article of its own on Zapier, and no app-specific limit is documented. What breaks is general Zapier behavior, and with an alert trigger it bites in specific ways.
Four cases cover most surprises. If a Zap still fails after these checks, the Zapier troubleshooting guide is the next stop.
Past outages never show up
A Zap reacts only to alerts raised after it is switched on. Incidents from before publishing are not picked up, and moving that history is a separate job.A storm of alerts gets held back
When a trigger suddenly returns a huge batch at once, Zapier's flood protection can hold it back. A wide outage hitting many monitors together is the likely case.The filter step is refused on Free
The free plan builds two-step Zaps only. A filter counts as a step, so a trigger, a filter and an action need a paid plan.Task budget gone mid-month
Every successful action is one task, and the free plan has 100 a month. A flapping monitor that alerts over and over can use them up quickly.
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