Heartbeat is a simple (& responsive) site-tracking statusboard (and twitter dashboard) that allows you to set up a list of sites and servers to check, and will alert you via email (and a visual prompt on-screen) when a site does not respond with a satisfiable response (usually a slow response time or a none-200 status code).
- See a list of your sites with instant highlighting of those experiencing problems.
- Email alerts when a site goes down and comes back up.
- Optional twitter feed to the side of the statusboard, using whatever search term you'd like.
Edit the file at app/config/heartbeat.php and fill in the details. Twitter values are required if you want to display tweets (twitter requests will silently fail otherwise).
The application is built upon Laravel 4 and requires PHP 5.3 (this will soon be moving to 5.4), and also requires Composer to install dependencies.
Drop the application onto your server at http://myserver.com using SSH or FTP.
Go into the application directory and run :
# Download Composer
$ curl -S http://getcomposer.org/installer | php
# Install dependencies
$ php composer.phar installCreate a MySQL database for your project.
Edit the app/config/database.php to use your database settings.
Once you've done that, run the following command in the application directory:
$ php artisan migrateThere you go, your statusboard is now set up, but with no sites in there to check.
You can add sites to check by editing app/config/sites.php, this is simply a two-level-deep array of sites and groupings. The top level is the server name or group name, and the rest are Site names as key and the URL as the value.
<?php
return array(
'Group / Server Name' => array(
'Site Name' => 'http://www.example.com',
'Site Name' => 'http://www.example.com',
'Site Name' => 'http://www.example.com',
'Site Name' => 'http://www.example.com',
'Site Name' => 'http://www.example.com',
),
);Then use Laravel's db:seed command to add them to the database:
$ php artisan db:seed