statping-bootstrap

Background

statping-ng has an API and I wanted to use it for creating hosts from a YAML document

How do I add a host?

The script accepts a path to YAML file. Here's an example of what it could look like:

---
- name: "Name of my group"
  entries:
    # Minimum is name and domain, defaults to http check
    - name: "A host I want to add"
      domain: localhost
    # Ping Example
    - name: "Some other host"
      domain: 127.0.0.1
      type: icmp
    # Expect a specific http response code
    - name: "Github Current User"
      domain: "https://api.github.com/user"
      expected_status: 401

The example block defines a group called Name of my group with three hosts that would be created.

How do I run this?

python3 provision.py my.yaml where myhosts.yaml is your file.

Default values for service items

Some values are defaulted to match what Statping expects and can be overridden by providing them on a host

Key	Value
expected	""
type	"http"
method	"GET"
post_data	""
port	0
expected_status	200
check_interval	30
timeout	30
order_id	0