shukriadams/arewedown

Feature Request: Shell command alert mechanism

rudism opened this issue · 0 comments

Some mechanism to fire alerts via a shell script could be used to integrate with third party services without necessarily having to support those services directly.

Some use cases I'm thinking of are making a POST using curl to a Unified Push server for mobile push notifications, or the Twilio API for SMS notifications, as a couple simple examples.

Not sure how it would work with the existing config schema... Maybe it wouldn't need explicit recipients. An idea around how to configure might look like this:

transports:
  shell:
    unified-push: curl -XPOST -d "$message" https://my-unified-push-server.com/arewedown
    sms-alert: curl -XPOST -u 'mytwiliosid:mytwiliokey' -d 'From=5557654321' -d 'To=5551234567 -d "Body=$message" https://api.twilio.com/2010-04-01/Accounts/mytwiliosid/Messages

Each alert could loop through them and populate the $message environment variable before firing the command.

This could also potentially cover #17 since I believe Telegram has an http API that could be invoked the same way (maybe using jq in the command to help construct the payload to post and piping that to curl).