Tinystatus

tinystatus generate an html status page via shell script.

Features

• Parallel checks
• HTTP, ping, port checks
• HTTP expected status code (401, ...)
• Minimal dependencies (curl, nc and coreutils)
• Easy configuration and customisation
• Tiny (~1kb) optimized result page
• Incident history (manual)
• Crontab friendly

Demo

An example site is available here.

Setup

To install tinystatus:

• Clone the repository and go to the created directory
• Edit tinystatus variables to your liking
• Edit the checks file checks.csv
• To add incidents or maintenance, edit incidents.txt
• Generate status page ./tinystatus
• Serve the page with your favorite web server

Configuration file

The syntax of checks.csv file is:

Command, Expected Code, Status Text, Host to check

Command can be:

• http - Check http status
• ping - Check ping status
• port - Check open port status
• maint - Host is in maintance

There are also http4, http6, ping4, ping6, port4, port6 for IPv4 or IPv6 only check.
Note: port4 and port6 require OpenBSD nc binary.

Parameters

./tinystatus -c CHECKFILE -i INCIDENTSFILE -o HTMLFILE
Default:
	-c = checks.csv
	-i = incidents.txt
	-o = index.html