Cloud Monitoring Dashboard

A dashboard for Rackspace's Cloud Monitoring. See the statuses of the alerts on all of your cloud properties.

API (v1)

The v1 API is accessible at <Your Dashboard URL>/api/v1/. The following calls can be made against the API:

Call	Method	Parameters	Description
/accounts	GET		List the accounts currently on the dashboard.
/accounts	POST	username, apikey, alias (optional)	Add a new account to the dashboard.
/accounts	DELETE	username or apikey	Remove an account from the dashboard.
/auth	GET		Retrieve the authentication status of all users. Refreshes the auth information if it is out of date.
/auth/<username>	GET		Retrieve the authentication status of a particular user. Refreshes the auth information if it is out of date.
/monitors	GET	fast (pull the response from the Redis cache)	Retrieve all of the configured Cloud Monitoring alerts.
/monitors/<username>	GET	fast (pull the response from the Redis cache)	Retrieve all of the configured Cloud Monitoring alerts for a particular user.
/monitors/<username>/<server id>	GET	Retrieve detailed information about the Cloud Monitoring alerts for a particular server.
/filters	GET		List the filters currently on the dashboard.
/filters	POST	filter	Add a new filter to the dashboard.
/filters	DELETE	filter	Remove a filter from the dashboard.

Authentication

The Cloud Monitoring dashboard supports basic HTTP authentication. To enable this, generate an .htpasswd file and add it to your repo. After deploying to Heroku, run the command:

heroku config:set HTPASSWD="Your .htpasswd filename"

Authentication will then be enabled.

To disable authentication, run the command:

heroku config:unset HTPASSWD

Launching on Heroku

# Pull the Cloud Monitoring Dashboard repo.
git clone https://github.com/amussey/cloud-monitoring-dashboard
cd cloud-monitoring-dashboard

# Login to your Heroku account.
heroku login

# Create a new Heroku app.
heroku create

# Install the required Redis backend
heroku addons:add rediscloud

# Push the app to Heroku.
git push heroku master

# Make sure that the webapp is up and scaled correctly.
heroku ps:scale web=1

# Open your Dashboard!
heroku open