What CoIsland watches in Stripe

Each monitor kind brings its own query and its own card in the notch.

How to monitor Stripe from your Mac’s notch

Stripe emails you about some of this, hours later and mixed with receipts. A CoIsland monitor checks what you pick on its own schedule and speaks up only about what is new.

lookback:24h
lookback:3d
change:canceled lookback:24h
below:500 currency:usd

Connect Stripe walks through the restricted key, its permissions and every monitor kind.

Connect it in three steps

  1. In the Stripe Dashboard, create a restricted key under Developers › API keys with Read on the resources you watch and None on the rest.

  2. Add a Stripe connector with the key. Test connector shows live or test mode and what the key can read.

  3. Pick a monitor kind or an example, choose how far back it looks, and choose when it alerts.

Built for Stripe

  • Read only: a secret key is refused, and a restricted key with Read permissions cannot refund, pay out or change anything.
  • Test mode keys work, and their alerts say test, so sandbox money never reads as real.
  • A canceled subscription shows the customer's feedback and comment.
  • The key stays in the macOS Keychain and goes only to api.stripe.com.

Then hand it to an agent

A click on the alert opens the agent in a terminal under it, with the whole alert as its first message.

Stripe questions

How do I get notified on my Mac when a Stripe payment fails?

Add a Stripe connector in CoIsland with a restricted key that can read Charges, then a Failed payments monitor. The first check learns what already failed and stays quiet; after that each new failed charge opens the notch with its amount, the customer's email and the decline reason.

Why does CoIsland refuse my Stripe secret key?

A secret key (sk_) can do anything in your account, including refunds and payouts. CoIsland only needs to read, so it asks for a restricted key (rk_) with Read permissions, which Stripe recommends for any tool you give a key to.

Does it work in test mode?

Yes. An rk_test_ key watches your sandbox, links to its test pages in the Dashboard, and marks every alert as test.

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