A comprehensive service monitoring and alerting system.
Create a monitor_config.json
file:
{
"services": [
{
"name": "API Service",
"url": "https://api.example.com/health",
"method": "GET",
"headers": {
"Authorization": "Bearer token123"
},
"expected_status": 200,
"timeout": 5,
"check_interval": 30,
"retry_attempts": 3,
"retry_delay": 1,
"critical_service": true
}
],
"alerts": {
"slack": {
"webhook_url": "https://hooks.slack.com/services/YOUR/WEBHOOK/URL",
"channels": ["#incidents", "#sre-team"]
},
"pagerduty": {
"service_key": "your-pagerduty-service-key",
"api_key": "your-pagerduty-api-key"
}
}
}
Key features:
-
Service Monitoring:
- Configurable health check endpoints
- Custom HTTP methods and headers
- Retry logic with configurable attempts and delays
- Response time tracking
- Customizable check intervals
-
Alerting:
- Slack integration
- PagerDuty integration for critical services
- Differentiation between critical and non-critical services
- Recovery notifications
- Detailed error reporting
-
Monitoring API:
- Health check endpoint
- Service status overview
- Response time metrics
- Failure tracking
-
Resilience:
- Automatic retries
- Concurrent monitoring
- Error handling
- Recovery detection
Remember to:
- Set appropriate timeouts and intervals
- Configure proper authentication for services
- Test the monitoring system itself
- Set up redundancy for critical monitoring