Columnist Frederick Vallaeys shares a highly customizable script that can help detect anomalies within an AdWords account, improving upon Google's Account Anomaly Detector.

Today, I’d like to share another script, one that alerts advertisers when there is an anomaly in performance in a specific location: the Geo Anomaly Detector. Alerts are critical, especially now ...

I mentioned earlier that functions are not technically required. This is true, but -- depending on the script -- the lack of functions could take what is considered a well-thought-out, useful script ...

If you don't want to step up to a full monitoring solution such as Nagios you can create your own scripts for monitoring the things that you want to monitor, such as disk space. The following script ...