Server Status Checker

A simple script to check if your webserver/website is up or not. If the site is down, it sends a notification to a Slack channel of your choosing.

Implementations

There are 2 implementations of said script, one for running the script in a classic desktop/server environment, this script can be found at src/main. There is also a AWS Lambda version of the script located at src/lambda, this version of the script implements Lambda-specific code to run smoothly as a Lambda function.

Prerequisites

• A Slack workspace with an authorized Slackbot
• A room to post alerts to within the Slack workspace
• One or more publicly accessible webservers to be checked (for now, these are filled in the hosts slice inside the main/checker function - this will be changed in the future)

I found this article very helpful when I was setting up the Slackbot for the first time.

Installation

git clone https://github.com/Loupeznik/ServerStatusChecker.git
cd ServerStatusChecker
go get .
cp .env.example .env # fill the .env values with your Slack creds
go run src/main/main.go

You can also fill the hosts slice and build an executable with go build src/main, in that case, the .env file needs to exist in the same directory as the executable.

License

This project is MIT licensed.