cabot-zombie

DEPRECATED

This is deprecated in favor of cabot-db-config, which is way faster and more reliable.

Automate your configuration of Cabot monitoring.

Cabot is a self-hosted monitoring and alert service. But unfortunately it lacks an HTTP API to automate configuration.

cabot-zombie runs a headless browser (Zombie.js) that creates your configuration based on a simple Javascript object.

Cabot let's you create multiple services, instances and checks. cabot-zombie currently supports a configuration that creates N services, each one running on N instances, and with N checks (only HTTP checks supported right now).

Install

npm i -S cabot-zombie

Configure

createServices.js

const cabotZombie = require('cabot-zombie')
const config = require('./config')

cabotZombie(config)
  .then(() => console.log('All done!'))

config.js

module.exports = {
  baseUrl: 'http://my-host-with-cabot:1234/',
  credentials: {
    username: 'docker', // cabot's default username when installed with docker
    password: 'docker', // cabot's default password when installed with docker
  },
  data: {
    services: [
      {
        name: 'service-a',
        instances: [
          {
            address: 'my-host-a', // will automatically create a default ping check to this host
            checks: [
              {
                type: 'http',
                endpoint: 'http://my-host-a/my-page',
                textMatch: 'my page should contain this',
                frequency: 1, # minute - default is 5 minutes
              },
            ],
          },
          {
            address: 'my-host-b',
            checks: [
              {
                type: 'http',
                endpoint: 'http://my-host-b/my-page',
                textMatch: 'my page should contain this',
              },
            ],
          },
        ],
      },
    ],
  },
}

Options

Second parameter to cabotZombie call is an object that can override some functions used in the process.

cabotZombie(config, {
  // customize service name. `data` contains data about the current service
  resolveServiceName: (data) => { ... },

  // customize service name. `data` contains data about the current service and instance
  resolveInstanceName: (data) => { ... },

  // customize service name. `data` contains data about the current service, instance and check
  resolveCheckName: (data) => { ... },

  // customize matching the check names to be added to a service. This is used when Zombie.js has to select the checks that are part of a service.
  customCheckNameMatcher: (checkName, data) => { ... },
})

For instance, I use these options like this:

const resolveServiceName = (data) => {
  const service = data.service
  return `${service.env}-${service.name}-service`
}

const resolveInstanceName = (data) => {
  return `${resolveServiceName(data)}-instance-${data.instanceIndex}`
}

const resolveCheckName = (data) => {
  return `${resolveInstanceName(data)}-check-${data.check.type}-${data.checkIndex}`
}

// use this to make the Zombie check the default ping check for each instance when checking all the checks for a service
const customCheckNameMatcher = (checkName, data) => {
  return checkName === `Default Ping Check for ${resolveInstanceName(data)}`
}

const options = {
  resolveServiceName,
  resolveInstanceName,
  resolveCheckName,
  customCheckNameMatcher,
}

const main = () => {
  cabotZombie(config, options)
    .then(() => console.log('All set up!'))
}

Contributing

cabot-zombie fits perfectly the configuration that I want to do, but it isn't very generic.

Any pull requests in that sense would be greatly appreciated.

License

MIT