This is the source code for my simple status website built using Flask. Upon visiting the site, the Flask app makes a few simple queries to see which services are online.
- Basic functionality
- Config file instead of hard-coded domains
- Config file instead of hard-coded queries
- Add more informative text instead of "OK" and "UNREACHABLE"
- IPv6 things
For local development, use
flask --app statuspage run
See the Flask documentation for more information. I use Apache with simple CGI because there is no (performance) reason to set up FastCGI or similar.
Provide a config.json with your domains, based on config.json.template
Configure your webserver with CGI to run the script. Make sure to not expose
unwanted files (.git, __pycache__, config.json).
If you run into issues using ping, make sure capabalities for normal users are set:
setcap cap_net_raw+p /bin/ping