Node App Watcher

A simple node module which acts as a serverless program to monitor your application status.

**It will send notification, once your application status changes(UP or DOWN)

Installation and setup

Using npm:

$ npm i -g npm
$ npm i --save app-watcher

Init Method:

watcher.start(config<object>);

Config object should contains following properties

1. email: "gmail-id" Email id for sending notification(From mail id)
2. pass: "gmail-password"
3. to: ["email-id", "email-id"] add one or multiple gmail ids for getting notification from watcher
4. appUrl: - Application URL to be monitored
5. emailContent - this is a optional parameter, you can change subject and content of notification email

| Key | Type |Optional| Description | |----------------|-----------|--------|-----------------------------------| | email | String |false| Email id for sending notification. Email id should be gmail account id. | | pass | String |false| Password of gmail account. | | to | Array[String] or String|false| Here you add your notification receivers list | | appUrl | String |false| Application url checking status about application | | emailContent | Object |true| This is a optional parameter. You can change email content.|

Email Content

emailContent is a optional parameter, it has two attributes

1. success {subject (String), body (String or HTMLString)}

2. failure {subject (String), body (String or HTMLString)}

| key | Type |Optional| Description | default values | |---------------|-----------------|--------|---------------------------|---------| | emailContent.success.subject| String|true| Optional parameter. You can add you success email subject| App Status - Started | | emailContent.success.body| String or HTML String|true| Optional parameter. You can add you success email body| Your application started at Mon Mar 01 2018 16:50:02 GMT+0530 (IST) | | emailContent.failure.subject| String|true| Optional parameter. You can add you failure email subject|App Status - Terminated| | emailContent.success.body| String|true| Optional parameter. You can add you failure email body|Your application terminated due to [Reason]|

Email Notication

We are using node mailer for sending emails. So you can add multible to email ids

Gmail account configuration

Turn on gmail less secure option for sending emails through nodemailer. https://nodemailer.com/usage/using-gmail/

Examples

watcher.js

var watcher = require("app-watcher");

//default method
watcher.start({
    from: "*****@gmail.com",
    pass: "***********",
    to: ["****@gmail.com", "****@hotmail.com", "*****@domain.com"],
    appUrl: "http://application.com/"
});

(or)

watcher.start({
    from: "*****@gmail.com",
    pass: "***********",
    to: ["****@gmail.com", "****@hotmail.com", "*****@domain.com"],
    appUrl: "http://application.com/",


    emailContent: {         //optional parameter
        success: {
            subject: "",
            body: ""
        },
        failure: {
            subject: "",
            body: ""
        }
    }
});

$ node watcher.js;

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