Python: Check that your projects are still alive

Jan 6, 2012 by Ando    No Comments    Posted under: Coding, Python

I wrote the following Python script to solve my need to verify all my projects are still up and running. The program itself is simple: given a list of URL-s check that all of them return HTTP status code 200 (OK). On any other status (mainly 500) send a report to the admin.

Best used via crontab every… minutes.

Install: Copy both files to a directory (~/bin works well) and check that dependencies (imports) are satisfied. Configure via http_check.yaml, optionally adding custom actions to http_ok() and http_error() functions inside the main script file.

Link to the source (GitHub)

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