Status Dashboard

Status Dashboard is status page for your configured services or applications.

Demo @ Heroku : http://statusdashboard-node.herokuapp.com

Screenshots

Installation

npm install statusdashboard or
npm install git+https://github.com/iobazoud/statusdashboard#master

Optionally, you can install as a global package

Roadmap

Improve UI: scrollbars, filters, check type column, ...
Add network services like SMTP, POP3, ...
Improve REST API to get / push data ...

How To Use

As an application

Add your entry in settings.js.

settings['xxx'] = {
...
};

export APP_ENV=demo
./bin/statusdashboard

You can override settings with an external settings for private information like passwords, ..

vi ~/.statusdashboard/settings.js

exports.create = function() {
  var appSettings = {
    port: 8081,
    services: [{
      name: 'FTP Local',
      password: 'xxx'
    }]
  };
  return appSettings;
};
}

export APP_SETTINGS=~/.statusdashboard/settings.js

As a node module

var dashboard = require('statusdashboard').dashboard(settings);

Code

dashboard.api.addService(serviceObject)

Add a new service to be checked

dashboard.api.removeService(ServiceName)

Remove a service to be checked

dashboard.api.startChecking

Start the scheduled checks. Automatically is started by default when instanciating dashboard

dashboard.api.stopChecking

Stop the scheduled checks

dashboard.api.getStatus()

Return the current status of checked services

All other calls available in api.js are to be used at your own risk. You have been warned

Service

Daemon init script for node.js: https://gist.github.com/1123553

Plugins

Some plugins are available out-of-the-box:

Console
Graphite, send service state in Graphite
Heartbeat
History, save service state in Redis (Thanks to sreeix initial pull request) and graph it!
IRC bot
Mail
Twitter
Webhook

REST API

List services

$ curl http://127.0.0.1:8080/api/services
{"last":"Fri, 17 Jun 2011 22:33:03 GMT","services":[{"name":"couchdb","label":"Couchdb server @ local","status":"up","statusCode":200,"message":""},{"name":"bazoud.free.fr","label":"Olivier Bazoud blog","status":"up","statusCode":200,"message":""},{"name":"bazoud.free.fr","label":"Olivier Bazoud blog test.php","status":"up","statusCode":200,"message":""},{"name":"redis","label":"Redis server @ local","status":"up","statusCode":0,"message":""},{"name":"FTP Local","label":"Ftp @ local","status":"down","statusCode":0,"message":"ECONNREFUSED, Connection refused"},{"name":"PID file","label":"Pid @ local","status":"unknown","statusCode":9,"message":"EBADF, Bad file descriptor '/tmp/terminal.pid'"}],"lastupdate":"Fri, 17 Jun 2011 22:33:08 GMT","summarize":{"lastupdate":"Fri, 17 Jun 2011 22:33:08 GMT","up":3,"critical":0,"down":1,"unknown":2}}

Retrieve a specific service

$ curl http://127.0.0.1:8080/api/services/couchdb
{"name":"couchdb","label":"Couchdb server @ local","status":"up","statusCode":200,"message":""}

Retrieve a summary

$ curl http://127.0.0.1:8080/api/summarize
{"up":4,"critical":0,"down":1,"unknown":1}

Version of application

$ curl -iX GET http://127.0.0.1:8080/api/version
{"commit":"641b97cbcfdc53b1b2b825d588afe08e412471d4","author":"obazoud","committer":"obazoud","date":"Fri, 12 Aug 2011 10:15:27 GMT"}

And plugin can contribute to statusdashboard REST API

$ curl http://127.0.0.1:8080/api/history/service/couchdb
["{\"time\":1310024374699,\"status\":\"up\",\"message\":\"\",\"code\":200}","{\"time\":1310024379591,\"status\":\"up\",\"message\":\"\",\"code\":200}", ...]