PlenusPyramis / uptime-slack-bot

Slack bot to check on website uptime

URL status checker for Slack

A slack bot that tells you if a website goes down, and when it comes back.

• Create a Slack app - https://api.slack.com/apps
• Enable incoming webhook
• Copy the webhook URL and bind to an environment variable called SLACK_WEBHOOK (see below).
• Run the docker container with the SLACK_WEBHOOK and three additional arguments:
  • The URL to check
  • The delay between checks
  • The threshold number of times that a URL must be down before reporting it.
• Run a new container for each URL to check. Each container runs continuously.

Example:

# Set your own slack webhook:
export SLACK_WEBHOOK=https://hooks.slack.com/services/XXXX/YYY/ZZZ
# The url to check
export URL=http://www.example.com
# Delay between checks (seconds)
export DELAY=10
# Number of checks site must be down before reporting:
export THRESHOLD=3

sudo docker run --rm -it \
   -e SLACK_WEBHOOK=$SLACK_WEBHOOK \
   plenuspyramis/uptime-slack-bot \
   $URL $DELAY $THRESHOLD