HeartBeat Statusboard

Heartbeat is a simple (& responsive) site-tracking statusboard (and twitter dashboard) that allows you to set up a list of sites and servers to check, and will alert you via email (and a visual prompt on-screen) when a site does not respond with a satisfiable response (usually a slow response time or a none-200 status code).

Features

See a list of your sites with instant highlighting of those experiencing problems.
Email alerts when a site goes down and comes back up.
Optional twitter feed to the side of the statusboard, using whatever search term you'd like.

Installation

Edit The config file.

Edit the file at app/config/heartbeat.php and fill in the details. Twitter values are required if you want to display tweets (twitter requests will silently fail otherwise).

Setup the DB & Dependencies

The application is built upon Laravel 4 and requires PHP 5.3 (this will soon be moving to 5.4), and also requires Composer to install dependencies.

Drop the application onto your server at http://myserver.com using SSH or FTP.

Go into the application directory and run :

# Download Composer
$ curl -S http://getcomposer.org/installer | php
# Install dependencies
$ php composer.phar install

Create a MySQL database for your project.

Edit the app/config/database.php to use your database settings.

Once you've done that, run the following command in the application directory:

$ php artisan migrate

There you go, your statusboard is now set up, but with no sites in there to check.

Adding Sites

You can add sites to check by editing app/config/sites.php, this is simply a two-level-deep array of sites and groupings. The top level is the server name or group name, and the rest are Site names as key and the URL as the value.

<?php
return array(
	'Group / Server Name' => array(
		'Site Name' => 'http://www.example.com',
		'Site Name' => 'http://www.example.com',
		'Site Name' => 'http://www.example.com',
		'Site Name' => 'http://www.example.com',
		'Site Name' => 'http://www.example.com',
	),
);

Then use Laravel's db:seed command to add them to the database: