Auto Refresh

Use case

A wallboard that watches itself

Put the dashboard on a screen, refresh it on a schedule, and get told when it starts showing something you would rather know about.

Add to Chrome

Why this has to run in your browser

Internal tools are the clearest case: they are behind SSO, often on a private network, and no hosted monitor will ever see them. The browser you are already signed into is the only thing that can.

Suggested setup

Interval
30–60 seconds, on a weekday 09:00–18:00 schedule
What to watch
"Error" OR "Failed" OR "Degraded"
Trigger
Alert when it appears, and keep refreshing
Alerts
Slack or a webhook into your on-call tooling

Step by step

  1. 1Open the dashboard and start a refresh at 60 seconds.
  2. 2Add a schedule so it only runs during working hours.
  3. 3Watch for the wording your tool uses for failures.
  4. 4Turn on 'keep refreshing after a hit' so one blip does not stop the board.

If the page you want to watch is public and you need it checked while your computer is off, this extension is the wrong tool — Pulse runs the same kind of check on a server.