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I like this! I wish there was a way to authenticate though. So, as you can gauge in deeper and check if services are really working. But of course, if the file

• eliot_sykes 15y ago
  Talking about monitoring deeper in the app...Monitoring cron jobs is one thing that I've never done in a way I'm comfortable with, or enough. That realization is what lead to monitors.txt. I'm working on something like this along with a rails plugin for checking jobs run on time: Feature: Jobs should run on time Scenario: Search Subscription Job ran on time Given the job started and ended at: | start | end | | 2011-10-30 05:30:01 GMT | 2011-10-30 05:37:42 GMT | | 2011-10-29 05:30:01 GMT | 2011-10-29 05:37:42 GMT | Then I should see the job took less than 10 minutes And I should see the job started every day at "05:30 GMT" The rails plugin generates the text above and start/end run times with something like this: class SearchSubscriptionJob def perform # Fire off the search subscription emails ... end add_job_monitor :job_method => :perform, :should_run => [:daily, "05:30 GMT"], :max_duration => 10.minutes, :alerts => {:email => 'admin@yoursite.tld', :sms => '+441234567890', :twitter => 'twitteruser'}