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Thana_13

How do you monitor your algo during market hours when you have a full time job?

Question

running a simple intraday strategy on nifty options from an EC2 instance. the strategy itself works fine when i'm watching it. the problem is i have a 9-6 job and can't stare at a terminal all day.

last week my websocket disconnected at 10:30 AM on kite connect and my algo just sat there doing nothing for 4 hours. i only noticed when i checked after work. no trades, no errors in logs (because the connection just silently died), just a dead process.

before that, i had an incident where my algo entered a position but the adjustment order failed. it sat with a naked short call for 3 hours because i wasn't monitoring.

what i need is a reliable monitoring + alerting setup that:

  • detects when the algo stops trading or websocket dies
  • alerts me on phone immediately
  • ideally can do basic interventions (like closing all positions if something goes wrong)

what are you guys using? telegram bots? custom dashboards? i know Dhan has some webhook stuff, Fyers has push notifications, and Nubra apparently has webhook callbacks for connection drops and order events. haven't tested any of these properly. zerodha's kite connect doesn't really have built in monitoring from what i can tell, everything is DIY.

just want peace of mind during work hours without building a full devops stack around a simple options strategy.

Posted Apr 3, 2026, 4:55 PM UTC

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