2019-12-02 | [Removal] Monitoring Removed from Ionic Appflow

 

Original Announcement Date

October 1st, 2019

 

Removal Date

December 1st, 2019

 

What does this announcement mean?

Starting December 1st, 2019

• Ionic Appflow customers will no longer have access to the Ionic Monitoring service.
  • This change was first announced in October. Please see the original post for details.

What happened today?

• The Monitoring service has been shut down and the UI removed for customers in the Ionic Appflow Dashboard.
• Any API calls to the Monitoring service will no longer return errors from your app; these calls will do nothing and return HTTP 201 status codes.
• In 2020, the Ionic team will entirely remove the code for the Monitoring service. At that time, you may begin to receive errors if using the old Monitoring APIs in your application.
  • It is highly recommended that you remove the Monitoring service from your application as noted so that you are unaffected by this change in the future.

What do I need to do if I’m using still using the Monitoring API?

• If your Ionic application still includes the @ionic/pro package, it is recommended to remove it from your application. If you are also using the Deploy API, make sure you are on the latest version of cordova-plugin-ionic and update your imports and code per the documentation.
  
  
• If your application still includes references to Pro.monitoring and/or IonicErrorHandler, remove the associated code from your application as soon as possible

I need an alternative to Monitoring for my application(s). Can you recommend any other services?

Common alternatives to Monitoring include Sentry.io and Firebase Crashlytics. A number of our clients have reported positive experiences with Sentry in particular, which has built an entire product around error monitoring as a service. Both services come with generous free-tier offerings for smaller applications, with paid tiers after a certain amount of usage.

Questions?

If you have questions or concerns, please reach out to us via email at [e-mail].