express-status-monitor

Simple, self-hosted module based on Socket.io and Chart.js to report realtime server metrics for Express-based node servers.

Demo

Demo available here

Support for other Node.js frameworks

koa-monitor for Koa
hapijs-status-monitor for hapi.js

Installation & setup

Run npm install express-status-monitor --save
Before any other middleware or router add following line: app.use(require('express-status-monitor')());
Run server and go to /status

Note: This plugin works on Node versions > 4.x

Run examples

Go to cd examples/
Run npm i
Run server npm start
Go to http://0.0.0.0:3000

Options

Monitor can be configured by passing options object into expressMonitor constructor.

Default config:

title: 'Express Status',  // Default title
theme: 'default.css',     // Default styles
path: '/status',
socketPath: '/socket.io', // In case you use a custom path
websocket: existingSocketIoInstance,
spans: [{
  interval: 1,            // Every second
  retention: 60           // Keep 60 datapoints in memory
}, {
  interval: 5,            // Every 5 seconds
  retention: 60
}, {
  interval: 15,           // Every 15 seconds
  retention: 60
}],
chartVisibility: {
  cpu: true,
  mem: true,
  load: true,
  eventLoop: true,
  heap: true,
  responseTime: true,
  rps: true,
  statusCodes: true
},
healthChecks: [],
ignoreStartsWith: '/admin'

Health Checks

You can add a series of health checks to the configuration that will appear below the other stats. The health check will be considered successful if the endpoint returns a 200 status code.

// config
healthChecks: [{
  protocol: 'http',
  host: 'localhost',
  path: '/admin/health/ex1',
  port: '3000'
}, {
  protocol: 'http',
  host: 'localhost',
  path: '/admin/health/ex2',
  port: '3000'
}]

Securing endpoint

The HTML page handler is exposed as a pageRoute property on the main middleware function. So the middleware is mounted to intercept all requests while the HTML page handler will be authenticated.

Example using https://www.npmjs.com/package/connect-ensure-login

const ensureLoggedIn = require('connect-ensure-login').ensureLoggedIn()

const statusMonitor = require('express-status-monitor')();
app.use(statusMonitor);
app.get('/status', ensureLoggedIn, statusMonitor.pageRoute)

Credits to @mattiaerre

Example using http-auth

const auth = require('http-auth');
const basic = auth.basic({realm: 'Monitor Area'}, function(user, pass, callback) {
  callback(user === 'username' && pass === 'password');
});

// Set '' to config path to avoid middleware serving the html page (path must be a string not equal to the wanted route)
const statusMonitor = require('express-status-monitor')({ path: '' });
app.use(statusMonitor.middleware); // use the "middleware only" property to manage websockets
app.get('/status', basic.check(statusMonitor.pageRoute)); // use the pageRoute property to serve the dashboard html page

Using module with socket.io in project

If you're using socket.io in your project, this module could break your project because this module by default will spawn its own socket.io instance. To mitigate that, fill websocket parameter with your main socket.io instance as well as port parameter.