Saucelabs coding challenge - An Application for monitoring specific server's health status

How to run this application

Make sure you have maven and JDK version >= 8 properly installed, then you can either run this application by following command from the current project diretory.

mvn spring-boot:run

Or you can build this project into a jar file

mvn clean package

then run this jar file by following command.

java -jar target/monitor-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.jar

After started this application, you can check the output from both terminal window or file ./monitor.log (which needed to be created before running this application) Basically there are three types of output indicating different status of server API.

• Server is healthy (it returns 200): INFO Server is working.
• Server returns wrong status code: ERROR Server returned status code 500
• Cannot connect to server: ERROR Failed to connect to server.

Also, you can configure following properties from application.properties file.

server.url = YOUR_SERVER_ADDRESS_WITH_PORT
schedule.interval = MONITOR_CHECK_INTERVAL
logfile.path = LOGFILE_PATH

TODO

• need to add tests if I have enough time :(