pinger 0.1.0

Website monitoring tool

Pinger

Website monitoring application

Features

• Pluggable (See plugins section)

• Easy to install and configure

• Unobtrusive (independent request intervals, parallel requests)

Installation

• Copy config/example.json to somewhere

• Edit the file as you will

• Set environment variable PINGER_SETTINGS setting to your configuration file

• Run pinger

Config

Pinger supports some few configurations by default. Configurations in bold are required.

Param | Description | Default |

—————— | —————————————————- | ————————- |

default_interval | Default interval between requests. | 10 |

default_timeout | Default timeout for requests. | 30 |

main_process_sleep | Main process sleep time. | 0.5 |

plugins | Plugins list | [‘save_on_db’] |

websites | Websites list | Check config/example.json |

Each website has a couple configurations that can overwrite the default configurations.

Param | Description |

———————- | —————————————————- |

name | Website name |

url | Website URL |

expected_content | Expected response content |

expected_status_code | Expected response status code |

timeout | Overwrites global timetout |

interval | Overwrites global interval |

Plugins

It’s rather easy to create a plugin for Pinger. Check pinger/ext/__init__.py for some documentation and I recommend taking a look at the existing plugins. Put your plugins in pinger/ext/plugins and add them to the plugins section on your configuration.

Available Plugins * stdout - Prints logs to stdout * sqlite - Saves results into an sqlite database * log - Logs results