VirajPatidar/monito-backend

Monito is a user-friendly responsive chat bot in the form of a web app that can be used to monitor application health, security, status, potential issues and other performance metrics over time.

Monito

Monito is a user-friendly responsive chat bot in the form of a web app that can be used to monitor application health, security, status, potential issues and other performance metrics over time. The application provides the following features:

• Token based authentication system for secure accession, operation and maintenance of user data
• Application supports monitoring of API endpoints (with JSON payload and authentication header support) and normal website URL’s
• Application monitoring based on the following metrics:
  • Number of requests (Both successful and failed requests)
  • Response time
  • Bytes transferred
  • Network traffic
  • Security statistics, risks and status
• Downloadable audit report for performance, accessibility, Progressive Web Apps (PWA’s) and Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
• Notification and alert system based on alert condition set by user
• Backend API can be integrated with other chat platforms such as slack, discord, telegram, etc

Link to the website: https://monito-app.netlify.app
Link to frontend repo: https://github.com/VirajPatidar/monito-frontend
Application demo video link: https://youtu.be/mQOaj5VSs1w

Contributors

Sr. No.	Name	GitHub
1.	Viraj Patidar	@VirajPatidar
2.	Anurag Singh	@heyanurag
3.	Atharva Patil	@atharvadpatil

Architecture

Tech Stack

Backend

• API and Database
  • Django
  • Django REST Framework
  • PostgreSQL
• Distributed Task Queue and Scheduling
  • Celery
  • django-celery-beat
  • django-celery-results
• Message Broker
  • Redis
• Audit Reports
  • Lighthouse
  • Express.js

Frontend

• React
• react-chatbot-kit
• MUI

Business Impact

• Automatic and intelligent observability will help organizations improve user experiences at the scale of modern computing.
• Business KPIs and user journey analysis (for example, login to check out) to optimize user experiences and provide transparency into how changes impact KPIs
• Root-cause and impact analysis of application performance problems and business outcomes for faster, more reliable incident resolution
• Improved developer and operational productivity
• Improved infrastructure utilization will lead to increase in revenue and reduction in operating cost
• Increased application stability and uptime
• Faster resolution of performance problems and higher-quality software releases

Future Plans and Improvements

• Integration of the developed API with other chat platforms like discord, slack, telegram and WhatsApp
• Support other API formats like GraphQL and gRPC
• Support other authentication types like AWS IAM v4, Oauth, Microsoft NTLM, basic auth and digest.
• Security testing of application for OWASP vulnerabilities using testing platforms like ZAP and Burp Suite
• Refine and extend the notification system to send alerts based on more parameters. Example: Traffic Spike