wiz/bitcoin-service-check

Bitcoin Service Check for Icinga2

Simple command-line utility to check status of a Bitcoin node

Uses Bitcoin protocol code from @ayeowch/bitnodes repo

Setup

For clearnet testing, need Python3.7 + pip3.7 for python deps:

sudo pkg install python37 py37-pip
sudo pip-3.7 install -r requirements.txt

For *.onion node testing, also need:

sudo apt-get install -y tor

Install check_bitcoin command in nagios plugins folder

install -c -m 755 bitcoin-service-check.py /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_bitcoin

Install configuration files in icinga2 conf folder

cp icinga2/*.conf /etc/icinga2/conf.d/

Edit configuration to add Slack incoming webhook URL

vi /etc/icinga2/conf.d/slack.conf

Add host objects with bitcoinaddress (and optionally bitcoinport)

object Host "22tg6ufbwz6o3l2u.onion" {
    import "bitcoin-node"
    vars.bitcoinaddress = "22tg6ufbwz6o3l2u.onion"
}

Manual Usage

./bitcoin-service-check.py [IP address or *.onion] [port]

Node is online:

% ./bitcoin-service-check.py jiuuuislm7ooesic.onion 8333
OK - 594893 /Satoshi:0.18.1/

Node is unreachable:

% ./bitcoin-service-check.py jiuuuislm7foobar.onion 8333
CRITICAL - Socket error: timed out: ('jiuuuislm7foobar.onion', 8333)
$ echo $?
2