Website Down Notifier on Slack
A simple, one file script that notifies you on slack when your website is down.
Configuration
Step 1 - Get the script
Simply copy paste the script uptimemonitor.py into your server. After you test it add it to cron with your preferred check interval
Example for checks every minute
$crontab -e
* * * * * /home/uptimemonitor/uptimemonitor.py > /root/uptimenotifier.log
$service cron restart
$tail -f /root/uptimenotifier.log
Note that the script is written in Python3.5.
Step 2 - Setup the config variables
URLS_TO_CHECK = ["http://facebook.com", "https://youtube.com:9540"]
You have to have a token so you can send messages to a slack channel! Get one here
https://api.slack.com/docs/oauth-test-tokens
You need then to export it as an environmental variable or hardcoded
export SLACK_TOKEN = 'your_token_here'
SLACK_TOKEN = os.environ.get('SLACK_TOKEN')
Where you want to receive your notifications ?
you can get it using list_channels and channel_info or click on the channel name
click on add app or integration and you can view it's id in the webpage redirection (you have to be fast because it redirects it to another page)
CHANNEL_ID = "G2LCBCXGF"
