tubbo / breakbeat

A status site for your company's services.

Breakbeat

An automatic status page application I made for TelVue. Useful for keeping customers up-to-date on outages or poor performance of their services. Breakbeat should live on a VPS outside of your infrastructure, so it can provide monitoring from a perspective closer to a customer's. It's also so that when our entire infrastructure fails, Breakbeat will still be able to provide status updates to our customer base.

Features

• "Pings" various connected services regularly to obtain up-to-the-minute stats on the boxes they're running on, using Net::HTTP to make GET requests to their base path.
• Admin UI for editing uptime messages and adding new reports.

Roadmap

• Builds uptime statistics and graphs from the given data

Setup

Install dependencies:

$ bundle install

Set up the DB:

$ rake db

Start the server:

$ rails server

Usage

In production, when you want to create a user, run:

$ rake user USER_EMAIL='[e-mail]' USER_PASSWORD='helloimindelaware'

Users can not be created from the API, but they can be updated. Since users are for company staff only, you need box access in order to create yourself a new user.

Contributing

Write tests and submit a PR.