easy-alert

Super Simple Server Monitoring Tool.

Features

• Check various types of status, and then send notifications.

Dependencies

• Python >= 2.6
• pyyaml
• paramiko (for ssh watcher)
• /bin/ps (for process watcher)
• /usr/bin/aws (aws-cli for SES notifier)

Installation

• pip command may need sudo

• Check the installed version: easy-alert --version
• Write your configuration to the file /etc/easy-alert/easy-alert.yml.

See an example below.

Configuration Example

/etc/easy-alert/easy-alert.yml:

---
watchers:
  process:
    - { name: syslogd, error: "=1", regexp: "^/usr/sbin/syslogd" }
    - { name: awesome batch, error: "<=3", warn: "<=2", regexp: "^/usr/local/bin/awesome arg1 arg2" }
  ssh:
    - { dynamic: "aws ec2 describe-instances --output text --query 'sort_by(Reservations[].Instances[?not_null(Tags[?Key==`Name`].Value)][].[PrivateIpAddress,Tags[?Key==`Name`].Value|[0]],&[1])'", user: ec2-user, key: ~/.ssh/your.key.pem }
    - { name: web-1, host: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, user: ec2-user, key: ~/.ssh/your.key.pem }
    - { name: web-2, host: yyy.example.com, user: ec2-user, key: ~/.ssh/your.key.pem }

notifiers:
  email:
    group_id: awesome
    from_address: foo@example.com
    to_address_list: bar@example.com,baz@example.com
    smtp_server: mail.example.com
    smtp_port: 587

Quickstart Guide

(todo)

easy-alert process --check
easy-alert process
easy-alert ssh --check
easy-alert ssh