ping-monitor

Uptime Event Emitter

An uptime event emitter for http and tcp servers.

Installation

npm install ping-monitor

How to use

const Monitor = require('ping-monitor');

const myWebsite = new Monitor(options);

myWebsite.on(event, function(response, state) {
    // Do something with the response
});

Methods

• stop - stop an active monitor
• restart - stop and start an active monitor

Options

• address - Server address to be monitored
• website - Website address to be monitored
• port - Server port (optional).
• interval (defaults to 15 mins) - time interval for polling requests.
• httpOptions - allows you to define your http/s request with more control. A full list of the options can be found here: https://nodejs.org/api/http.html#http_http_request_url_options_callback
• expect - allows you define what kind of a response you expect for your endpoint. At the moment expect accepts 1 prop (more to be added in future versions), statusCode a http status code.
• config { intervalUnits } - configuration for your Monitor, currently supports one property, intervalUnits. intervalUnits specifies which to time unit you want your Monitor to use. There are 4 options, milliseconds, seconds, minutes (default), and hours.
• ignoreSSL - ignore broken/expired certificates

Expect Object

expect {
  statusCode: Integer, // http status codes
  contentSearch: String
}

// http Get
const myApi = new Monitor({
    website: 'http://api.ragingflame.co.za',
    title: 'Raging Flame',
    interval: 5,

    config: {
      intervalUnits: 'minutes' // seconds, milliseconds, minutes {default}, hours
    },

    httpOptions: {
      path: '/users',
      method: 'get',
      query: {
        id: 3
      }
    },
    expect: {
      statusCode: 200
    }
});

// http Post
const myApi = new Monitor({
    website: 'http://api.ragingflame.co.za',
    title: 'Raging Flame',
    interval: 10,

    config: {
      intervalUnits: 'minutes' // seconds, milliseconds, minutes {default}, hours
    },

    httpOptions: {
      path: '/users',
      method: 'post',
      query: {
        first_name: 'Que',
        last_name: 'Fire'
      },
      body: 'Hello World!'
    },
    expect: {
      statusCode: 200
    }
});

Emitted Events

• up - All is good website is up.
• down - Not good, website is down.
• stop - Fired when the monitor has stopped.
• error - Fired when there's an error
• timeout - Fired when the http request times out

response object

• object.website - website being monitored.
• object.address - server address being monitored.
• object.port - server port.
• object.time - (aka responseTime) request response time.
• object.responseMessage - http response code message.
• object.responseTime - response time in milliseconds.
• object.httpResponse - native http/s response object.

state object

• object.id null - monitor id, useful when persistence.
• object.title null - monitor label for humans.
• object.isUp true - flag to indicate if monitored server is up or down.
• object.created_at <Date.now()> - monitor creation date.
• object.isUp true - current uptime status of the monitor.
• object.port null - server port.
• object.totalRequests 0 - total requests made.
• object.totalDownTimes 0 - total number of downtimes.
• object.lastDownTime <Date.now()> - time of last downtime.
• object.lastRequest <Date.now()> - time of last request.
• object.interval 5 - polling interval in minutes
• object.website null - website being monitored.
• object.address null - server address being monitored.
• object.port null - server port.

Website Example

'use strict';

const Monitor = require('ping-monitor');


const myMonitor = new Monitor({
    website: 'http://www.ragingflame.co.za',
    title: 'Raging Flame',
    interval: 10 // minutes
});


myMonitor.on('up', function (res, state) {
    console.log('Yay!! ' + res.website + ' is up.');
});


myMonitor.on('down', function (res) {
    console.log('Oh Snap!! ' + res.website + ' is down! ' + res.statusMessage);
});


myMonitor.on('stop', function (website) {
    console.log(website + ' monitor has stopped.');
});


myMonitor.on('error', function (error) {
    console.log(error);
});

TCP Example

'use strict';

const Monitor = require('ping-monitor');


const myMonitor = new Monitor({
    address: '162.13.124.139',
    port: 8080,
    interval: 5 // minutes
});


myMonitor.on('up', function (res, state) {
    console.log('Yay!! ' + res.address + ':' + res.port + ' is up.');
});


myMonitor.on('down', function (res, state) {
    console.log('Oh Snap!! ' + res.address + ':' + res.port + ' is down! ');
});


myMonitor.on('stop', function (res, state) {
    console.log(res.address + ' monitor has stopped.');
});


myMonitor.on('error', function (error, res) {
    console.log(error);
});


myMonitor.on('timeout', function (error, res) {
    console.log(error);
});

Change log

v0.6.1

Changes

• Added auto id generation opt-out

  let ping = new Monitor({
    website: 'https://google.com',
    interval: 5,
    config: {
      intervalUnits: 'minutes',
      generateId: false // defaults is true
    }
  });

  ping.on('up', function (res, state) {
    //state.id === null
    console.log('Yay!! Google is up');
  });


  ping.on('error', function (error, res) {
    console.error(error);
  });

v0.6.0

Changes

• Code refactoring
• Removed active from props (redundant)
• Removed host from props (not used)
• Added ignoreSSL to support websites with expired certificates

  let ping = new Monitor({
    website: 'https://wrong.host.badssl.com',
    interval: 1,
    config: {
      intervalUnits: 'minutes' // seconds, milliseconds, minutes {default}, hours
    },
    ignoreSSL: true
  });

  ping.on('up', function (res, state) {
    console.log('Yay!! Service is up');
  });


  ping.on('error', function (error, res) {
    console.error(error);
  });

v0.5.2

Changes

• Added support for configuring interval units

  let ping = new Monitor({
    website: 'https://webservice.com',
    interval: 1,
    config: {
      intervalUnits: 'minutes' // seconds, milliseconds, minutes {default}, hours
    }
  });

  ping.on('up', function (res, state) {
    console.log('Yay!! Service is up');
  });


  ping.on('error', function (error, res) {
    console.error(error);
  });

v0.5.1

Changes

• Added Support for content search in HTTP/HTTPS - courtesy of @pbombnz

  let ping = new Monitor({
    website: 'https://ecommorce-shop.com/playstation5',
    interval: 0.1,
    expect: {
      contentSearch: 'In stock'
    }
  });

  ping.on('up', function (res, state) {
    console.log('Yay!! Content cantains the phrase "In stock"');
  });


  ping.on('error', function (error, res) {
    console.error(error);
  });

v0.5.0

Changes

• Added timeout event to Monitor instance. This event is passed from the htt/s module.

  myMonitor.on('timeout', function (error, res) {
    console.log(error);
  });

  // also make sure that you are handling the error event
  myMonitor.on('error', function (error, res) {
    console.log(error);
  });

• Dependencies update

Please note: When the timeout event is fired, it is followed by the error event which is created when we manually abort the http request.

v0.4.4

Dependencies update

v0.4.3

Changes

• Added the native http/s response object in the Monitor response object
• Added Post support in your Monitor instances.

You can now include a body in your httpOptions:

// http Post
const myApi = new Monitor({
    website: 'http://api.ragingflame.co.za',
    title: 'Raging Flame',
    interval: 10 // minutes

    // new options
    httpOptions: {
      path: '/users',
      method: 'post',
      query: {
        first_name: 'Que',
        last_name: 'Fire'
      },
      body: 'Hello World!'
    },
    expect: {
      statusCode: 200
    }
});

myApi.on('up', function (res, state) {
  /*
    response {
      responseTime <Integer> milliseconds
      responseMessage <String> response code message
      website <String> url being monitored.
      address <String> server address being monitored
      port <Integer>
      httpResponse <Object> native http/s response object
    }

    state {
      created_at <Date.now()>
      isUp <Boolean>
      port: <Integer>
      totalRequests <Integer>
      lastDownTime <Date.now()>
      lastRequest <Date.now()>
      interval <Integer>
    }
  */
});

v0.4.2

Changes

Added some utility methods used when updating a monitor and added immediate ping on monitor creation.

• Added pause method to Monitor.
• Added unpause method to Monitor.

Tip: See options section to learn how they work.

v0.4.1

Changes

Changes in v0.4.1 give you more control to define your http requests and what response to expect.

• Added httpOptions prop to Monitor instance options.
• Added expect prop for naming your your monitor.

Tip: See options section to learn how they work.

v0.4.0

Changes

Most of the changes introduced in this version were introduced to support database persistence.

• Added id prop, useful when you add database persistence.
• Added title prop for naming your your monitor.
• Added active prop to flag if monitoring is active.
• Added totalDownTimes prop for keeping record of total downtimes.
• Added isUp prop to indicate if monitored server is up or down.
• Added website, address, totalDownTimes, active, active props to the emitted state object
• Added eslinting (2015) and cleaned up the code a bit
• *breaking change: * the stop event now takes a callback that accepts 2 arguments, response && state (same as the up and down events).

v0.3.1

New Feature

• Added a state object in the response that returns useful monitoring data

• State object

  const Monitor = require('ping-monitor');

  const myMonitor = new Monitor(options);

  myMonitor.on(event, function(response, state) {
    /*
      response {...}
      state {
        created_at <Date.now()>
        isUp <Boolean>
        port: <Integer>
        totalRequests <Integer>
        lastDownTime <Date.now()>
        lastRequest <Date.now()>
        interval <Integer>
      }
    */
  });

Changes made

• The event handler now accepts to arguments response and state, please see above examples.

v0.3.0

• Brought back error event - required for handling module usage related errors
• Added responseTime to the response object
• Added support for tcp servers

v0.2.0

• Code cleanup and upgrade to ES6
• Removed the error event - now being handled internally
• Bug fixed: Unreachable resource not handled #9

Testing

npm test

License

(MIT License)

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