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philc
A host-your-own HTTP checking and pinging web service, to serve as an alternative to Pingdom.
This would be nice when you've fixed an alert and you'd like watchman to verify.
Currently, to check a URL that's not on port 80, a new host must be created. This results in lots of duplicated information. The real world use-case driving this is...
Our provisioning scripts currently contain role ID values in order to register hosts with Watchman specific roles, which is somewhat error prone. It would be great if there were an...
I find "max retries" confusing. "Max" is confusing because it's actually the highest allowed number of attempts, and N+1 attempts cause the check to fail. Intuitively, if I set "max...
So it's easy to see watchman in the http access logs. Here's a sample line from watchman in an nginx log: ip - - [2014-02-18T07:49:58+00:00] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 3441...
In the Overview tab, it's not particularly easy to see what the checks are for a single role. Options: - Be able to select a particular role and then filter...
You can delete all the checks, but the role persists. We should be able to directly delete the role.
Writing graphite/shadow checks, I end up with a lot of characters (`*`, `{`, `
I'm adding some fairly expensive checks and just pinging them, say, once every 5 or 10 minutes is probably fine. What if there were a field for frequency (automatically filled...