Ping a TimerCheck.io URL every time TownClock.io chimes
TownClock.io should be chiming every 15 minutes, in us-east-1 and us-west-2, around the clock, forever. A TownClock.io chime is a message sent to a public SNS topic, and is broadcast to anybody who subscribes their AWS Lambda function, SQS queue, or email address.
This project creates an AWS Lambda function and subscribes it to the TownClock.io SNS Topic. Every time it is run, it resets the a countdown timer on a TimerCheck.io timer to just a bit over 15 minutes.
I subscribe a StatusCake monitor to the TimerCheck.io timer URL. As long as the timer does not expire, StatusCake considers the service to be "up".
If TownClock.io were to miss a chime, then this AWS Lambda function would not get called, the TimerCheck.io timer would expire, and TimerCheck.io would return an error status to StatusCake. StatusCake would consider the service to be "down" and would send me an alert.
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This software uses AWS Lambda subscribed to an SNS Topic. It deploys using AWS SAM (Serverless Application Model) which generates AWS CloudFormation.
The following commands work on Ubuntu 17.04 Zesty:
Set up buckets:
for region in us-east-1 us-west-2; do
aws s3 mb --region "$region" s3://YOURBUCKET-$region
done
Deploy to AWS account:
make \
REGION=us-east-1 \
PACKAGE_BUCKET=YOURBUCKET-us-east-1 \
TOPIC_ARN=arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:522480313337:unreliable-town-clock-topic-178F1OQACHTYF \
TIMER_URL=https://timercheck.io/YOURTIMER-us-east-1/960 \
deploy
make \
REGION=us-west-2 \
PACKAGE_BUCKET=YOURBUCKET-us-west-2 \
TOPIC_ARN=arn:aws:sns:us-west-2:522480313337:unreliable-town-clock-topic-N4N94CWNOMTH \
TIMER_URL=https://timercheck.io/YOURTIMER-us-west-2/960 \
deploy