Gesund

To have healthy servers, it is important to have an automated check that can tell you if something is wrong. Gesund for the rescue!

Gesund is a simple health checker that provides ready classes to do various checks against running services, filesystem state and more. Currently the gesund gem itself only has a small number of file system checks, and several additional gems provide checks for redis, mysql, mongodb and http (https://github.com/devops-israel?q=gesund)

This project is early alpha - you are welcome to help out and make it shine.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'gesund'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install gesund

First create a Gesundfile that will list the required checks, for example:

require "gesund/redis"
require "gesund/mysql"
require "gesund/mongo"
require "gesund/http"

check :file, "/tmp/testfile"
check :link, "/tmp/testlink"
check :directory, "/tmp"
check :redis_connection
check :mysql_connection
check :mongo_connection
check :http_status, url: "http://www.google.com/"

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Then you can either run it on the command line, or start a Rack server that will answer to requests with the results of the required checks.

Running on the command line -

$ gesund
200: File /tmp/testfile is a file
200: Symbolic link /tmp/testlink is a symlink
200: Directory /tmp is a directory
200: Redis PING = PONG
500: Mysql::Error: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)
200: Mongo PING = OK
500: HTTP GET request to http://www.google.com/ status is 302

RESULT: Health check failed!

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request