critbot 0.1.4

Sending critical errors to syslog, slack, email, {your_plugin}.

Install:

pip install critbot

Add to “config.py” file:

import critbot.plugins.syslog
import critbot.plugins.slack
import critbot.plugins.email
from critbot import crit_defaults

crit_defaults.subject = 'MyService host:port CRIT'

crit_defaults.plugins = [
    critbot.plugins.syslog.plugin(),
    critbot.plugins.slack.plugin(
        token='Get it from https://my.slack.com/services/new/bot',
        channel='#general', # '@private' or '#channel'
        users='', # '@user1 @user2 @userN'
    ),
    critbot.plugins.email.plugin(
        to='Name1 <[e-mail]>, Name2 <[e-mail]>',
        user='[e-mail]', # Add more config if not GMail.
        password='pa$$word',
    ),
]

Check other config options and their defaults, e.g. “seconds_per_notification=60” and “spam=False”:

• https://github.com/denis-ryzhkov/critbot/blob/master/critbot/core.py#L23 - “crit_defaults”

• https://github.com/denis-ryzhkov/critbot/blob/master/critbot/core.py#L38 - “crit”

• https://github.com/denis-ryzhkov/critbot/blob/master/critbot/plugins/syslog.py#L17

• https://github.com/denis-ryzhkov/critbot/blob/master/critbot/plugins/slack.py#L14

• https://github.com/denis-ryzhkov/critbot/blob/master/critbot/plugins/email.py#L14

Use “crit” in other files of your project:

from critbot import crit

try:
    1/0
except Exception:
    crit()
    # More processing if needed.

try:
    1/0
except Exception:
    crit(also='test2')

if True:
    crit('test3')

Please fork https://github.com/denis-ryzhkov/critbot and create pull requests with new plugins inside.