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Tuesday 26 November 2019

StatusOK

Monitor your Website and APIs from your Computer. Get Notified through Slack, E-mail when your server is down or response time is more than expected.

Simple Version

Simple Setup to monitor your website and recieve a notification to your Gmail when your website is down.

Step 1: Write a config.json with the url information
{
 "notifications":{
  "mail":{
   "smtpHost":"smtp.gmail.com",
   "port":587,
   "username":"yourmailid@gmail.com",
   "password":"your gmail password",
   "from":"yourmailid@gmail.com",
   "to":"destemailid@gmail.com"
  }
 },
 "requests":[
  {
   "url":"http://mywebsite.com",
   "requestType":"GET",
   "checkEvery":30, 
   "responseTime":800
  }
 ]
}
Turn on access for your gmail https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps .

Step 2: Download bin file from here and run the below command from your terminal
$ ./statusok --config config.json
Thats it !!!! You will receive a mail when your website is down or response time is more.
To run as background process add & at the end
$ ./statusok --config config.json & 
to stop the process
$ jobs
$ kill %jobnumber 
 
You can save data to influx db and view response times over a period of time as above using graphana.
Guide to install influxdb and grafana
With StatusOk you can monitor all your REST APIs by adding api details to config file as below.A Notification will be triggered when you api is down or response time is more than expected.
{
 "url":"http://mywebsite.com/v1/data",
 "requestType":"POST",
 "headers":{
  "Authorization":"Bearer ac2168444f4de69c27d6384ea2ccf61a49669be5a2fb037ccc1f",
  "Content-Type":"application/json"
 },
 "formParams":{
  "description":"sanath test",
  "url":"http://google.com"
 },
 "checkEvery":30,
 "responseCode":200,  
 "responseTime":800
},

{
 "url":"http://mywebsite.com/v1/data",
 "requestType":"GET",
 "headers":{
  "Authorization":"Bearer ac2168444f4de69c27d6384ea2ccf61a49669be5a2fb037ccc1f",  
 },
 "urlParams":{
  "name":"statusok"
 },
 "checkEvery":300,
 "responseCode":200,  
 "responseTime":800
},

{
 "url":"http://something.com/v1/data",
 "requestType":"DELETE",
 "formParams":{
  "name":"statusok"
 },
 "checkEvery":300,
 "responseCode":200,  
 "responseTime":800
}
Guide to write config.json file
Sample config.json file
To run the app
$ ./statusok --config config.json &

Database

Save Requests response time information and error information to your database by adding database details to config file. Currently only Influxdb 0.9.3+ is supported.
You can also add data to your own database.view details

Notifications

Notifications will be triggered when mean response time is below given response time for a request or when an error is occured . Currently the below clients are supported to receive notifications.For more information on setup click here
  1. Slack
  2. Smtp Email
  3. Mailgun
  4. Http EndPoint
  5. Dingding
Adding support to other clients is simple.view details

Running with plain Docker

docker run -d -v /path/to/config/folder:/config sanathp/statusok Note: Config folder should contain config file with name config.json

Running with Docker Compose

Prepare docker-compose.yml config like this:
version: '2' services: statusok: build: sanathp/statusok volumes: - /path/to/config/folder:/config depends_on: - influxdb influxdb: image: tutum/influxdb:0.9 environment: - PRE_CREATE_DB="statusok" ports: - 8083:8083 - 8086:8086 grafana: image: grafana/grafana ports: - 3000:3000 Now run it:
docker-compose up 

from https://github.com/sanathp/statusok
https://github.com/sanathp/statusok/releases/