Health Mode

Health mode is a embedded Sinatra app that provides an API interface to the system metrics. System metrics such as system load, disk space, and memory are exposed. This makes it easy to integrate with other web services such as twitter or twilio.

Installation

gem install health_mode

Dependencies

Health mode is meant to be ran on a Linux server. It has been tested on Ubuntu and Centos.

Usage

Health mode can be ran directly from the command line.

# runs the Sinatra app on the default port 5678
health-mode-agent

# sets the port to 4567
health-mode-agent -p 4567

# kill the server
health-mode-agent -K

# see all the command line options
health-mode-agent -h

Visit http://127.0.0.1:5678 to view the embedded server.

File descriptor error

You may see this message when you run with the default options

Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console

It is ok to ignore it. If you want to get rid of it, just use the -L option

# preventing the file descriptor error message from appearing
health-mode-agent -L

Security

By default, health mode only allows requests from localhost. If you have a trusted host, let health mode accept requests from it

# stating an authorized host
health-mode-agent -a foo.com

Or for debugging purposes, you may want to accept all requests

# accept requests from public
health-mode-agent -u

Note on Patches/Pull Requests

Fork the project.
Make your feature addition or bug fix.
Add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a future version unintentionally.
Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)

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