Cronitor Ping API Client

Cronitor is a service for heartbeat-style monitoring of anything that can send an HTTP request. It's particularly well suited for monitoring cron jobs, Jenkins jobs, or any other scheduled task.

This java library provides a simple abstraction for the pinging of a Cronitor monitor. For a better understanding of the API this library talks to, please see our Telemetry API docs.

Install

You can download the cronitor client JAR from the Maven central repository. https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/io/cronitor/client/1.6.0/

Install with Maven

If you are using Maven, simply add this line in your pom.xml file :

<dependency>
    <groupId>io.cronitor</groupId>
    <artifactId>client</artifactId>
    <version>1.6.0</version>
</dependency>

Usage with Spring

Declare a new bean in your Spring configuration :

<bean id="cronitorClient" class="io.cronitor.client.CronitorClient">
     <constructor-arg index="0" value="apiKey"/>
     <constructor-arg index="1" value="environment"/> // optional
</bean>

Then simply inject this bean into the class containing the routine to monitor :

@Resource
private CronitorClient cronitorClient;

Usage without Spring

Simply declare a new CronitorClient instance in the class containing the routine to monitor:

CronitorClient cronitorClient = new CronitorClient('yourApiKey');

To send events to an environment other than the default ('production'), you can pass the environment as the second argument.
CronitorClient cronitorClient = new CronitorClient('yourApiKey', 'production');

Examples

send a run event (a job has started)

    cronitorClient.run("nightly-data-export");

send a complete event (a job has completed successfully)

    cronitorClient.complete("nightly-data-export");

send a failure event (a job has failed)

    cronitorClient.fail("nightly-data-export");

send a tick event (heartbeat events)

    cronitorClient.tick("heartbeat-monitor");

pause a monitor

    cronitorClient.pause("nightly-data-export", numberOfHours);

unpause a monitor

    cronitorClient.unpause("nightly-data-export");

including messages

    // each event method supports an optional message param
    cronitorClient.run("nightly-data-export", "Started by user 123");

    cronitorClient.complete("nightly-data-export", "Alive!");

    cronitorClient.fail("nightly-data-export", e.printStackTrace());

including metrics

    Map<String, Integer> metrics = new HashMap<String, Integer>() {
            {
                put("count", 100);
                put("error_count", 5);
            }
        };
    // each event method supports an optional message param
    cronitorClient.complete("nightly-data-export", "ok", metrics);

    cronitorClient.fail("nightly-data-export", e.printStackTrace(), metrics);

Development

The contained Dockerfile/docker-compose.yml file will allow you to build and test this library. Build the container with with docker-compose build. Run tests with docker-compose up.

If you want to share an idea, report an issue, or just say hello you can open an issue on this repo or email us at support@cronitor.io.

Authors

• @lboix
• @nnerny
• @firone
• @aflanagan
• @vcanuel