pingdom2slack

Small app to hook pingdom app monitoring to slack. The goal is to add the error message when one of your site is down.

Usage

The environment variables used are:

Environment variable	Description	Type	Default
SLACK_WEBHOOK	Slack webhook.	Required
PINGDOM_TOKEN	Pingdom token for v3.1 API	Required
TITLE_EMOJI_DOWN	Emoji to use in the title, when the notification is by DOWN	Optional	:warning:
TITLE_EMOJI_UP	Emoji to use in the title, when the notification is by UP	Optional	:ok:

With Docker

sudo docker run -d -e SLACK_WEBHOOK=https://***** -e PINGDOM_TOKEN=***** -p 5000:5000 rcovarru/pingdom2slack

Standalone app

virtualenv -p python3.8 venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
export SLACK_WEBHOOK=https://*****
export PINGDOM_TOKEN=*****

Development server

export FLASK_APP=pingdom2slack.py
flask run --host=0.0.0.0

Production server

gunicorn --bind=0.0.0.0:5000 pingdom2slack:app

Debug

You can run the app with a specific env variables FLASK_DEBUG=1 to enable debug logging.

Compile requirements

pip install pip-tools
pip-compile --output-file requirements.txt requirements.in

Build & Run

docker build -t pingdom2slack:local .

docker run -e SLACK_WEBHOOK=https://***** -e PINGDOM_TOKEN=***** -p 5000:5000 pingdom2slack:local

Basic testing

Pingdom webhooks are available in official documentation.

And local testing example is:

curl -v -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d @payload/http.json localhost:5000/test_channel