techstar-uptimedeprecated

Uptime monitor in Node.js that send status changes to Slack

Usage no npm install needed!

<script type="module">
  import techstarUptime from 'https://cdn.skypack.dev/techstar-uptime';
</script>

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Uptime monitor in Node.js that send status changes to Slack

NPM

Installation Usage Setting up Slack Contributors License

Installation

npm install techstar-uptime --save

Usage

'use strict';

const express  = require('express'),
      Uptime   = require('techstar-uptime');

const app = express();

app.set('port', process.env.PORT || 5000);

const bot = new Uptime({
  SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL: 'SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL'
});

bot.monitor([
  {
    url: 'https://www.techstar.cloud', // URL of service we'll be pining
    timeout: 200 // threshold in milliseconds above which is considered degraded performance
  }
]);

app.listen(app.get('port'), () => {
    console.log('Express is listening on port', app.get('port'));
});

Setting up Slack

Head on over to the Incoming WebHooks Slack app. If you're signed in to your Slack Workspace you should see an Add Configuration button. Hit it!

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Select or create a new channel then hit the Add Incoming WebHooks integration

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Grab the WebHook URL and paste it into the SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL, which would look like so:

SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL=https://hooks.slack.com/services/XXXXXX/YYYYYY/XXXXXXXXXXXX

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You can update

bot.monitor([
  {
    url: 'https://www.techstar.cloud', // URL of service we'll be pining
    timeout: 200 // threshold in milliseconds above which is considered degraded performance
  }
]);

with the services you wish to monitor and throw the code up on a server.

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Contributors

You may contribute in several ways like creating new features, fixing bugs, improving documentation and examples or translating any document here to your language. Find more information in CONTRIBUTING.md. Contributors

License

MIT.

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