A simple utility for performing health & response time checks of the GitLab website
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'gitlab_status'And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install gitlab_status
Simply run gitlab_status check. This will perform a GET request to 'https://about.gitlab.com' every 10 seconds for a minute, and then print out the average response time from libcurl (typhoeus).
What might be worth looking into is some actual deterministic testing of the response time reporting feature, currently skipped with xcontext in health_check_spec.rb. Another thing possibly interesting is the bias generated by the first request, which is noticably longer than the others (since it has to initiate a connection). At first, I thought to just skip the first probe during average time counting, but I'm still not feeling sure about it. Feel free to comment and/or send pull requests.
After checking out the repo, run bundle to install dependencies. Then, run bundle exec rspec spec to run the class tests, you can as well run bundle exec cucumber features to run the (currently basic) cucumber tests of the CLI. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.
To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install.
Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/skycocker/gitlab_status.
The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.