Uptime Gopher is a simple commmand line tool for checking the availability of the given web resources.
It checks every given host by doing a web request, ping, port check and keyword check (checks used per host are user-defined).
It displays the results on the standard output but it can be configured to log the results to a MySQL database (with or without displaying them on the standard output).
You will need the Go compiler installed. Git clone this repository, cd to it and execute go build. If you encounter any missing packages, go get them and then try to build the program again.
To configure the program, copy config.json.example to config.json and fill the missing values.
If you do not want to log the results to the database, set log-to-db to false (log-to-stdout should be then true). If you want to log to the database, create an MySQL database and a MySQL user with ALL privileges on the new database and fill the missing MySQL values.
To define the hosts you want to check, copy hosts.json.example to hosts.json and add your hosts.
The config file and the hosts config file are very self-explanatory.
Go to the build directory and execute the ./uptime-gopher binary.