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Pingdom Dashing Widget
class Dashing.Pingdom extends Dashing.Widget
<h1 class="title" data-bind="title"></h1>
<ul>
<li class="check" data-foreach-check="checks" data-bind-data-state="check.state">
<span data-bind="check.name"></span>
</li>
</ul>
require 'pingdom-client'
api_key = ENV['PINGDOM_API_KEY'] || ''
user = ENV['PINGDOM_USER'] || ''
password = ENV['PINGDOM_PASSWORD'] || ''
SCHEDULER.every '1m', :first_in => 0 do
client = Pingdom::Client.new :username => user, :password => password, :key => api_key
if client.checks
checks = client.checks.map { |check|
if check.status == 'up'
color = 'green'
else
color = 'red'
end
{ name: check.name, state: color }
}
checks.sort_by { |check| check['name'] }
send_event('pingdom', { checks: checks })
end
end
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Sass declarations
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
$background-color: #dc5945;
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Widget-clock styles
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
.widget-pingdom {
background-color: $background-color;
.check {
float: left;
padding: 4px 0px;
width:100%
}
.check[data-state="green"] {
background-color: green;
}
.check[data-state="red"] {
background-color: red;
}
.check span {
padding: 0px 4px;
}
}

Description

Simple Dashing widget (and associated job) to display Pingdom checks.

##Dependencies

pingdom-client

Add it to dashing's gemfile:

gem 'pingdom-client'

and run bundle install. Everything should work now :)

##Usage

To use this widget, copy pingdom.html, pingdom.coffee, and pingdom.scss into the /widgets/pingdom directory. Put the pingdom.rb file in your /jobs folder.

To include the widget in a dashboard, add the following snippet to the dashboard layout file:

<li data-row="1" data-col="1" data-sizex="1" data-sizey="1">
  <div data-id="pingdom" data-view="Pingdom" data-title="Pingdom" data-cols="1"></div>
</li>

##Settings

You'll need to add your pingdom API key and login settings. You can either add it straight to the source code on lines 4-6 of pingdom.rb, or set the variables in the ENV. For heroku, you can do this with

heroku config:set PINGDOM_API_KEY=
heroku config:set PINGDOM_USER=
heroku config:set PINGDOM_PASSWORD=

Pingdom is checked every minute, but you can change that by editing the job schedule.

Contributions

This has been extracted from a dashboard for the UK Ministry of Justice, with minimal generalising. Feel free to submit patches to @james

@matthijsgroen
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Hmm I get errors using the gem specified, because of a Faraday dependency conflict. When using another Github fork of the library, I get

scheduler caught exception:
:logger is not registered on Faraday::Adapter
/Users/matthijsgroen/dashing/vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/faraday-0.8.7/lib/faraday.rb:64:in `lookup_middleware'
/

@jwalton
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jwalton commented Sep 19, 2013

This is my version: https://gist.github.com/jwalton/6625777

It removes the dependency on pingdom-client, and thus the troublesome Faraday problems, and adds showing the most recent ping for each server.

@jwalton
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jwalton commented Sep 19, 2013

@james feel free to pull from mine. :)

@petermanser
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@jwalton @james https://gist.github.com/james/5670035#file-pingdom-rb-L21 should be:

checks.sort_by! { |check| check[:name] }

@foxhunt72
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Hello,

I have a question, how can i change did so it just shows the down checks, because we have something like more than 40 checks in pingdom so it doesn't fit on the screen.

Richard

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