site-monitor

Setup website monitoring from within Slack

First Time Setup

Prerequisites

1. Install PSQL
2. Install NPM
3. Setup a slackbot
4. If deploying locally, you may need to use ngrok

Getting Started

1. git clone [email protected]:pickovven/site-monitor.git
2. Setup a psql DB with the name "sites". Example for linux: sudo -u postgres psql -c "CREATE DATABASE sites;"
3. Start the psql server sudo service postgresql start
4. Create an .env file in the project root folder and add the following:

SLACKBOT_TOKEN="{enter token}"
DATABASE_URL="postgresql://{PSQL Username}:{PSQL Password}@{HOST}:{PORT}/{DB NAME}?schema=public"

5. Replace the databse and slackbot information with your environment's setup
6. run npm install
7. run npm start

Start again

1. Navigate to root folder
2. Run npm start

Using the database

The project uses prisma.

Using the App

After adding the app to your workspace, there are two commands

/monitor : add sites that can be monitored to the DB. /check : check if a site is live