IsTheWebsiteDown

IsTheWebsiteDown is a simple Sinatra app that displays an overview of websites and if they are down or not. The list of websites can be configured via a text file. See config/sites.txt.example for an example. Rename it to config/sites.txt to start using it.

This is a prototype I threw together in a couple of hours, to see how Sinatra works and how easy or hard a simple monitor page would be to build.

Since version 0.4.0 it works with Phusion Passenger.

Ideas and bugs can be reported at the Github issue tracker.

Requirements

• Sinatra: github.com/sinatra/sinatra
• Future: github.com/Narnach/future
• Haml: github.com/nex3/haml

Recent changes

Version 0.4.0

• Added Phusion Passenger support
  • DRYed up executable by using service.rb
  • Added rackup file and a service file that defines the service
• Each class has its own file
• Ignore logs directory

Version 0.3.1

• Bugfix: Inlined Website#connection_error into Future block code

Version 0.3.0

• Display a ‘last updated’ time on the frontpage
• Refactored update check needed logic into a method
• Moved site status checking to a background thread
• Added todo list
• Reset last status code before connecting

Version 0.2.0

• Sort websites by hostname on load
• Display monitored URLs by hostname
• Also catch SocketError, which occurs if a hostname can not be resolved
• Add missing comma
• Rescue SystemCallError when Net::HTTP raises it
• Configured public dir and root dir
• Added favicon
• Docfix: typo
• Docfix: Installation instructions explain how to install/config/start the app
• Remove rake tasks to build the non-existent gem
• Docfix: requirements should not be a one-liner

Version 0.1.0

• Added more URLs to sites.txt.example
• Detect a missing sites.txt file
• Added link to footer
• Upped timeout from 1 to 2 seconds
• Split CSS into its own file
• Working prototype
• Don’t build a gem, run the code directly

Version 0.0.2

• Actually display the page with sites
• Added simple overview page with hard-coded google url
• Updated gem description
• Updated readme with simple description

Version 0.0.1

• Created project

Installation

From git

Obtain the source code from github:

  git clone http://github.com/Narnach/is_the_website_down
  cd is_the_website_down
  cp config/sites.txt.example config/sites.txt

Edit config/sites.txt and replace the example with sites you want to monitor. Start the app:

  bin/is_the_website_down

Then open your browser and check localhost:4567

About

IsTheWebsiteDown was created by Wes Oldenbeuving. It is licensed under the MIT license.