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NAME

Updown - provide basic API to Updown.io

SYNOPSIS

use Updown;

my $ud = Updown.new;  # assume API key in UPDOWN_API_KEY

my $ud = Updown.new(api-key => "secret-api-key");

for $ud.checks -> (:key($check-id), :value($check)) {
    say "$check.apdex_t() $check.url()"
}

my $event = Updown::Event(%hash);  # inside a webhook

DESCRIPTION

Updown provides a simple object-oriented interface to the API as provided by Updown.io, a website monitoring service.

Access to functionality is provided through the Updown class, which has methods that perform the various functions and return objects in the Updown:: hierarchy of classes.

The Updown API is basically followed to the letter, with a little caching and some minor functional sugar added.

To be consistent with the names used in the API, all identifiers use underscores (snake_case) in their names, rather then hyphens (kebab-case).

CLI

This distribution also installs an updown command line interface. It (implicitely) takes an --api-key parameter (or if none specified, the one in the UPDOWN_API_KEY environment). It shows the status of all of the checks associated with that API key, and some more information about a check if a website is down.

COMPARING

In order to allow you to compare the performance of "your" sites with other, more general sites, the methods accepting a check_id can also with one of these named arguments instead of a check_id:

:booking     booking.com
:duckduckgo  duckduckgo.com
:facebook    facebook.com
:github      github.com
:google      google.com
:raku        raku.org

MAIN CLASSES

Updown

The Updown object connects the code with all of the monitoring that has been configured for a user of the Updown.io service.

Parameters

The following parameters can be specified when creating the Updown object:

client

A Cro::HTTP::Client object that will be used to access the API of Updown. Defaults to a default Cro::HTTP::Client object.

api-key

The API key that should be used to authenticate requests with the Updown API. Defaults to the UPDOWN_API_KEY environment variable.

Any API key (implicitely) specified will be added to the headers of the client object used to facilitate authentication.

Methods

The following methods are available on the Updown object:

check

Return the Updown::Check object associated with the given "check_id". Takes an optional named boolean argument :update to indicate that the information should be refreshed if it was already obtained before.

check_ids

Returns a list of "check_id"s of the Updown::Checks that are being performed for the user associated with the given API key. Takes an optional named boolean argument :update to indicate that the information should be refreshed if it was already obtained before.

checks

Returns a Hash with Updown::Check objects, keyed to their "check_id". Takes an optional named boolean argument :update to indicate that the information should be refreshed if it was already obtained before.

downtimes

Returns a list of up to 100 Node::Downtime objects for the given "check_id". Takes an optional :page argument to indicate the "page": defaults to 1.

hourly_metrics

Returns an object Hash of Updown::Metrics objects for the given "check_id" about overall metrics per hour, keyed to DateTime objects indicating the hour. Optionally takes two named arguments.

:from, a DateTime object indicating the start of the period for which to provide overall metrics. Defaults to DateTime.now.earlier(:1month).

:to, a DateTime object indicating the end of the period for which to provide overal metrics. Defaults to DateTime.now.

node

Return the Updown::Node object associated with the given "node_id". Takes an optional named boolean argument :update to indicate that the information should be refreshed if it was already obtained before.

node_ids

Returns a list of "node_id"s of the monitoring servers of the Updown.io network. Takes an optional named boolean argument :update to indicate that the information should be refreshed if it was already obtained before.

node_metrics

Returns a Hash of Updown::Metrics objects for the given "check_id" about overall metrics per monitoring server in the Updown.io network, keyed to "node_id". Optionally takes two named arguments.

:from, a DateTime object indicating the start of the period for which to provide overall metrics. Defaults to DateTime.now.earlier(:1month).

:to, a DateTime object indicating the end of the period for which to provide overal metrics. Defaults to DateTime.now.

nodes

Returns a Hash with Updown::Node objects, keyed to their "node_id". Takes an optional named boolean argument :update to indicate that the information should be refreshed if it was already obtained before.

ipv4-nodes

Returns a list of strings with the IPv4 numbers of the nodes in the Updown.io network that are executing the monitoring checks. Takes an optional named boolean argument :update to indicate that the information should be refreshed if it was already obtained before.

ipv6-nodes

Returns a list of strings with the IPv6 numbers of the nodes in the Updown.io network that are executing the monitoring checks. Takes an optional named boolean argument :update to indicate that the information should be refreshed if it was already obtained before.

overall_metrics

Returns a Updown::Metric object for the given "check_id". Optionally takes two named arguments.

:from, a DateTime object indicating the start of the period for which to provide overall metrics. Defaults to DateTime.now.earlier(:1month).

:to, a DateTime object indicating the end of the period for which to provide overal metrics. Defaults to DateTime.now.

Updown::Event

Objects of this type are not created automatically, but need to be created directly with the hash of the JSON received by a server that handles a webhook (so no Updown object needs to have been created).

event

A string indicating the type of event. Can be either "check.down" when a monitored website appears to be down, or "check.up" to indicate that a monitored website has become operational again.

check

The associated Updown::Check object.

downtime

The associated Updown::Node object.

AUTOMATICALLY CREATED CLASSES

Updown::Check

An object containing the configuration of the monitoring that the Updown.io network does for a given website.

alias

A string that describes the check, usually a human readable name of the website being monitored.

apdex_t

A rational number indicating the APDEX threshold.

custom_headers

A hash of custom headers that will be sent to the monitored website.

disabled_locations

An array of monitoring locations that have been disabled, indicated by node_id.

down

A boolean that will be true if the website is currently considered to be down.

down_since

A DateTime object indicating when it was first discovered that the website was down, if down. Else, Any.

enabled

A boolean indicating whether the monitoring is currently active.

error

A string containing the error that was encountered if the website is considered down.

favicon_url

The URL of the favicon small icon representing the website, if any.

http_body

Unclear what the functionality is.

http_verb

A string describing the HTTP method that will be used to monitor the website. Is one of "GET/HEAD", "POST", "PUT", "PATCH", "DELETE", "OPTIONS".

last_check_at

A DateTime object indicating when the last check was done.

last_status

An integer indicating the last HTTP status that was received.

mute_until

A string indicating until when notifications will be muted. Is either a string consisting of "recovery", "forever", or a DateTime object indicating until when notifications will be muted, or Any if no muting is in effect.

next_check_at

A DateTime object indicating when the next monitoring check will be performed.

period

An integer indicating the number of seconds between monitoring checks.

published

A boolean indicating whether the monitoring page is publicly accessible or not.

ssl

An Updown::Check::SSL object, indicating SSL certificate status of the monitored website.

string_match

A string that should occur in the first 1MB of the body returned by the monitored website. An empty string indicates no content checking is done.

title

Returns a string consisting of either the .alias, or the .url if there is no alias specified.

token

A string indicating the identifier (check-id) of this monitoring check configuration.

uptime

A rational number between 0 and 100 indicating the percentage uptime of the monitored website.

url

A string consisting of the URL that will be fetched to assess whether the monitored website is up and running.

Updown::Check::SSL

This object generally occurs as the ssl method in the Updown::Check object.

tested_at

A DateTime object indicating when the certificate of the monitored website was checked.

expires_at

A DateTime object indicating when the certificate of the monitored website will expire.

valid

A boolean indicating whether the certificate of the monitored website was valid the last time it was checked.

error

A string indicating the error encountered when checking the validity of the certificate of the monitored server, if any.

Updown::Downtime

An object describing a downtime period as seen by at least one of the monitoring servers in the Updown.io network.

duration

An integer indicating the number of seconds of downtime, or Any if the downtime is not ended yet.

ended_at

A DateTime object indicating the moment the downtime appeared to have ended, or Any if the downtime is not ended yet..

error

A string describing the reason the website appeared to be down, e.g. a HTTP status code like "500".

id

A string identifying this particular downtime.

partial

A boolean indicating whether the downtime was partial or complete (e.g. not being reachable by IPv6, but operating normally with IPv4).

started_at

A DateTime object indicating the moment the downtime appeared to have started.

Updown::Metrics

A collection of statistical data applicable for the current situation, or for a certain period, or for a certain Updown::Node.

apdex

A rational number indicating the current APDEX for this set of metrics.

requests

The associated Updown::Metrics::Requests object.

timings

The associated Updown::Metrics::Timings object.

Updown::Metrics::Requests

This object is usually returned by the "requests" method of the Updown::Metrics object.

by_response_time

The associated Updown::Metrics::Timings::ByResponseTime object.

failures

An integer indicating the number of monitoring requests that failed.

samples

An integer indicating the number of monitoring requests that were done.

satisfied

An integer indicating the number of monitoring requests that were processed to the user's APDEX satisfaction.

tolerated

An integer indicating the number of monitoring requests that were processed to the user's APDEX tolerance.

Updown::Metrics::Requests::ByResponseTime

This object is usually returned by the "by_response_time" method of the Updown::Metrics::Request object.

under125

An integer indicating the number of monitoring requests that were processed under 125 milliseconds.

under250

An integer indicating the number of monitoring requests that were processed under 250 milliseconds.

under500

An integer indicating the number of monitoring requests that were processed under 500 milliseconds.

under1000

An integer indicating the number of monitoring requests that were processed under 1 second.

under2000

An integer indicating the number of monitoring requests that were processed under 2 seconds.

under4000

An integer indicating the number of monitoring requests that were processed under 4 seconds.

Updown::Metrics::Timings

This object is usually returned by the "timings" method of the Updown::Metrics object.

connection

An integer indicating the average number of milliseconds it took to set up a connection with the monitored website.

handshake

An integer indicating the average number of milliseconds it took to do the TLS handshake with the monitored website.

namelookup

An integer indicating the average number of milliseconds it took to look up the name of the monitored website.

redirect

An integer indicating the average number of milliseconds it took to process any redirect that the monitored website did. Any value greater than 0 probably indicates a misconfigured URL of the monitored website.

response

An integer indicating the average number of milliseconds it took for the monitored website to initiate a response.

total

An integer indicating the average number of milliseconds it took for the monitored website to complete the monitoring request.

Updown::Node

An object containing information about a monitoring node in the Updown.io network.

city

A string with the name of the city where the monitoring node is located.

country

A string with the name of the country where the monitoring node is located.

country_code

A string with the 2-letter code of the country where the monitoring node is located.

ip

A string indicating the IPv4 number of the monitoring node.

ip6

A string indicating the IPv6 number of the monitoring node.

lat

A rational number indicating the latitude of the monitoring node.

lng

A rational number indicating the longitude of the monitoring node.

node_id

A string indicating the ID with which the monitoring node can be indicated.

Updown::Webhook

Objects returned by the webhooks method of the Updown object.

id

A string identifying this webhook.

url

A string with the URL to which any notifications should be sent.

AUTHOR

Elizabeth Mattijsen liz@raku.rocks

Source can be located at: https://github.com/lizmat/Updown . Comments and Pull Requests are welcome.

If you like this module, or what I'm doing more generally, committing to a small sponsorship would mean a great deal to me!

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2021, 2022, 2024 Elizabeth Mattijsen

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the Artistic License 2.0.