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app-watcher
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A simple serverless program to watch your application. If your application gets down, module send email notification
A simple node module which acts as a serverless program to monitor your application status.
**It will send notification, once your application status changes(UP or DOWN)
Using npm:
$ npm i -g npm
$ npm i --save app-watcher
Init Method:
watcher.start(config<object>);
Config object should contains following properties
| Key | Type | Optional | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| String | false | Email id for sending notification. Email id should be gmail account id. | |
| pass | String | false | Password of gmail account. |
| to | Array[String] or String | false | Here you add your notification receivers list |
| appUrl | String | false | Application url checking status about application |
| emailContent | Object | true | This is a optional parameter. You can change email content. |
emailContent is a optional parameter, it has two attributes
success {subject (String), body (String or HTMLString)}
failure {subject (String), body (String or HTMLString)}
| key | Type | Optional | Description | default values |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| emailContent.success.subject | String | true | Optional parameter. You can add you success email subject | App Status - Started |
| emailContent.success.body | String or HTML String | true | Optional parameter. You can add you success email body | Your application started at Mon Mar 01 2018 16:50:02 GMT+0530 (IST) |
| emailContent.failure.subject | String | true | Optional parameter. You can add you failure email subject | App Status - Terminated |
| emailContent.success.body | String | true | Optional parameter. You can add you failure email body | Your application terminated due to [Reason] |
We are using node mailer for sending emails. So you can add multible to email ids
Turn on gmail less secure option for sending emails through nodemailer. https://nodemailer.com/usage/using-gmail/
watcher.js
var watcher = require("app-watcher");
//default method
watcher.start({
from: "*****@gmail.com",
pass: "***********",
to: ["****@gmail.com", "****@hotmail.com", "*****@domain.com"],
appUrl: "http://application.com/"
});
(or)
watcher.start({
from: "*****@gmail.com",
pass: "***********",
to: ["****@gmail.com", "****@hotmail.com", "*****@domain.com"],
appUrl: "http://application.com/",
emailContent: { //optional parameter
success: {
subject: "",
body: ""
},
failure: {
subject: "",
body: ""
}
}
});
$ node watcher.js;
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A simple serverless program to watch your application. If your application gets down, module send email notification
We found that app-watcher demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 4 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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