App-watcher NPM

Node App Watcher

A simple node module which acts as a serverless program to monitor your application status.

**It will send notification, once your application status changes(UP or DOWN)

Installation and setup

Using npm:

$ npm i -g npm
$ npm i --save app-watcher

Init Method:

watcher.start(config<object>);

Config object should contains following properties 1. email: "gmail-id" Email id for sending notification(From mail id) 2. pass: "gmail-password" 3. to: "email-id", "email-id" add one or multiple gmail ids for getting notification from watcher 4. appUrl: - Application URL to be monitored 5. emailContent - this is a optional parameter, you can change subject and content of notification email

Key	Type	Optional	Description
email	String	false	Email id for sending notification. Email id should be gmail account id.
pass	String	false	Password of gmail account.
to	ArrayString or String	false	Here you add your notification receivers list
appUrl	String	false	Application url checking status about application
emailContent	Object	true	This is a optional parameter. You can change email content.

Email Content

emailContent is a optional parameter, it has two attributes

success {subject (String), body (String or HTMLString)}
failure {subject (String), body (String or HTMLString)}

key	Type	Optional	Description	default values
emailContent.success.subject	String	true	Optional parameter. You can add you success email subject	App Status - Started
emailContent.success.body	String or HTML String	true	Optional parameter. You can add you success email body	Your application started at Mon Mar 01 2018 16:50:02 GMT+0530 (IST)
emailContent.failure.subject	String	true	Optional parameter. You can add you failure email subject	App Status - Terminated
emailContent.success.body	String	true	Optional parameter. You can add you failure email body	Your application terminated due to Reason

Email Notication

We are using node mailer for sending emails. So you can add multible to email ids

Gmail account configuration

Turn on gmail less secure option for sending emails through nodemailer. https://nodemailer.com/usage/using-gmail/

Examples

watcher.js

var watcher = require("app-watcher");

//default method
watcher.start({
    from: "*****@gmail.com",
    pass: "***********",
    to: ["****@gmail.com", "****@hotmail.com", "*****@domain.com"],
    appUrl: "http://application.com/"
});

(or)

watcher.start({
    from: "*****@gmail.com",
    pass: "***********",
    to: ["****@gmail.com", "****@hotmail.com", "*****@domain.com"],
    appUrl: "http://application.com/",


    emailContent: {         //optional parameter
        success: {
            subject: "",
            body: ""
        },
        failure: {
            subject: "",
            body: ""
        }
    }
});