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Introduction
Staying healthy is essential. Luckily, nowadays, tracking health and wellness is easier than ever. This article will discuss how monitoring allows developers to ensure that their health applications run smoothly so people can stay healthy. If you want to learn more about application monitoring, click here for more information!
Why You Should Monitor HealthTech Apps
By monitoring your Healtech apps, you can ensure your app runs smoothly and understand when certain events happen in your account. This allows users to track their health and/or get the healthcare they need. Every application has different reasons for monitoring it, but you can:
1. Get performance data of the app
2. Get specific-to-app metrics based on your custom use case
3. Get user insights
These are just a few reasons why application monitoring is critical. If you are interested in how this applies to your application, book a call today!
Things To Look For In A Monitoring Solution
Certain KPIs are more critical in Healthtech than in other industries. Your priorities may change depending on your specific use case. However, here are some key considerations when looking for a monitoring solution.
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Security—Your monitoring and observability platform needs to be secure, especially if your app may collect health data.
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Alerting—Resolving errors is critical. Alerts allow you to address issues before app users notice them quickly. If you have alerting for user action metrics, you can observe what your users use most on the app.
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Ease of use- There is no point in complicated, over-the-top monitoring platforms if you don’t understand how to use them. The best option is a simple, accessible solution you can set up quickly.
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Seamless integrations—What’s even worse than a complicated platform? A complicated platform that does not work with your stack. Your monitoring solution must communicate with your apps and everything else you require.
MetricFire’s Hosted Graphite is the perfect solution for all your monitoring requirements. With a secure, understandable platform, your monitoring can be simple. Our support team is available 24/7 to help you with any monitoring-related questions. Try a free trial here!
Example Custom HealthTech Metrics
The metrics you need will vary depending on the goals you require to monitor your app. However, here is a list of metrics that may be meaningful to Healthtech businesses.
companyname.api.users.create.error
companyname.api.users.create.success
companyname.customerio.email.delivered
companyname.customerio.email.opened
companyname.tasks.change_treatment_plan.completed
companyname.tasks.rx_fill_order.completed
companyname.tasks.rx_fill_order.created
companyname.user.logged_in
Sending HealthTech Metrics
We are going to use the terminal to send Healthtech metrics. For information on sending custom metrics without an agent, check out our Language Guide. Using socket connections, we’ll show you how to configure custom metrics into your application code. First, you’ll need your API key.
You can obtain your API key by logging into your MetricFire account. To authenticate requests to our hosted carbon endpoint, you must prefix all custom metrics with your unique API key.
You can also click on the ‘Send Metrics’ button in your MetricFire account, which will give you ready-to-use snippets for different programming languages (Python, Java, Ruby, etc.).
You can easily incorporate these snippets into your codebase and send custom metrics to MetricFire to report on events within your application. You can then use these custom metrics to create dashboards and alerts.
Conclusion
Ensuring that Healthtech applications run smoothly is critical for maintaining users' health and wellness. By carefully selecting a monitoring solution that prioritizes security, provides effective alerting, is easy to use, and integrates seamlessly with your existing tech stack, you can ensure that your HealthTech app meets the highest performance and reliability standards.
MetricFire’s Hosted Graphite offers an excellent solution for HealthTech monitoring needs, providing a secure and user-friendly platform. You can track key metrics relevant to your application, ensuring that any issues are promptly addressed and your users have a great experience with your app. Get started today!
