All along the watchtower...
-Jimi Hendrix
tinear.py: A threshold manager for alert emails that throttles external script email alerts. Discussed in a dev.to article
ssh_active.py: A tool for checking SSH connectivity. To cut noise hosts are not considered "down" until they have failed to connect 3 times. "Down" hosts will generate follow-up alerts 2/3rds less frequently to try and reduce alarm apathy. Check-state is maintained in a whisper database.
Script pivoted to accept hostname as argument.
Jira Pulse: Simple monitoring for a fleet of JIRA instances. Look for connectivity and confirm basic functionality and response times with REST calls. Connection timeouts and too-slow responses trigger SMS cascades through Twilio, all responses are clocked against Employer's grafana in the production run.
Jira Selenium Checks: Demonstration of Selenium and Google Chromium to test the health of a Jira instance. This is predicated on Fabric Version 1