Status Dashboard

Status Dashboard is status page for your configured services or applications.

Demo:

• @ Nodester demo: http://statusdashboard.nodester.com
• @ No.de demo: http://statusdashboard.no.de

Screenshots

Dependencies

• See package.json
• run the following command to install the dependencies

$ npm install

Roadmap

• Improve UI: scrollbars, filters, check type column, ...
• Add network services like SMTP, POP3, ...
• Improve REST API to get / push data ...

How To Use

• git clone git@github.com:obazoud/statusdashboard.git or fork it
• node server.js

Add your entry in settings.js.

settings['xxx'] = {
...
};

• export APP_ENV=xxx
• node server.js

You can override settings with an external settings for private information like passwords, ..

• vi ~/.statusdashboard/settings.js

exports.create = function() {
  var appSettings = {
    port: 8081,
    services: [{
      name: 'FTP Local',
      password: 'xxx'
    }]
  };
  return appSettings;
};
}

• export APP_SETTINGS=~/.statusdashboard/settings.js

Service

Daemon init script for node.js: https://gist.github.com/1123553

Plugins

Some plugins are available out-of-the-box:

• Console
• IRC bot
• Twitter
• History, save service state in Redis (Thanks to sreeix initial pull request) and graph it!

REST API

• List services

$ curl http://127.0.0.1:8080/api/services
{"last":"Fri, 17 Jun 2011 22:33:03 GMT","services":[{"name":"couchdb","label":"Couchdb server @ local","status":"up","statusCode":200,"message":""},{"name":"bazoud.free.fr","label":"Olivier Bazoud blog","status":"up","statusCode":200,"message":""},{"name":"bazoud.free.fr","label":"Olivier Bazoud blog test.php","status":"up","statusCode":200,"message":""},{"name":"redis","label":"Redis server @ local","status":"up","statusCode":0,"message":""},{"name":"FTP Local","label":"Ftp @ local","status":"down","statusCode":0,"message":"ECONNREFUSED, Connection refused"},{"name":"PID file","label":"Pid @ local","status":"unknown","statusCode":9,"message":"EBADF, Bad file descriptor '/tmp/terminal.pid'"}],"lastupdate":"Fri, 17 Jun 2011 22:33:08 GMT","summarize":{"lastupdate":"Fri, 17 Jun 2011 22:33:08 GMT","up":3,"critical":0,"down":1,"unknown":2}}

• Retrieve a specific service

$ curl http://127.0.0.1:8080/api/services/couchdb
{"name":"couchdb","label":"Couchdb server @ local","status":"up","statusCode":200,"message":""}

• Retrieve a summary

$ curl http://127.0.0.1:8080/api/summarize
{"up":4,"critical":0,"down":1,"unknown":1}

• Version of application

$ curl -iX GET http://127.0.0.1:8080/api/version
{"commit":"641b97cbcfdc53b1b2b825d588afe08e412471d4","author":"obazoud","committer":"obazoud","date":"Fri, 12 Aug 2011 10:15:27 GMT"}

• And plugin can contribute to statusdashboard REST API

$ curl http://127.0.0.1:8080/api/history/service/couchdb
["{\"time\":1310024374699,\"status\":\"up\",\"message\":\"\",\"code\":200}","{\"time\":1310024379591,\"status\":\"up\",\"message\":\"\",\"code\":200}", ...]

Early adopters

• Exoplatform

• Shufflr

• Ekino

• IRC Plugin screenshot @ exoplatform

In the news

• IT Wars: StatusDashboard monitoring avec Node.js
• William Durand blog: Services Status Dashboard