Status Checker

status-checker is a Go command line tool to acknowledge the health of the Slack product and get information when an incident, outage or maintenance occurs

How to build the tool

To build the tool simply run the make command, this will generate binaries for various platforms in the bin folder.

├── bin
│   ├── status-checker-darwin-amd64
│   ├── status-checker-darwin-arm64
│   ├── status-checker-linux-amd64
│   └── status-checker-windows-amd64

How to use status-checker

Currently the available commands are:

Usage of status:
  -current
        get Slack's current health status
  -debug-mode
        enable debug mode
  -history
        get Slack's history health status

Examples

To query Slack's current health status, run the following command:

./bin/status-checker-darwin-arm64 -current

If there are no ongoing incidents this message should be returned:

🟢 Slack Current Health Status is Ok! 😄

To display the response as JSON add -debug-mode

e.g

./bin/status-checker-darwin-arm64 -current -debug-mode