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Overview

Statuspal is a status page provider from Germany. This check plugin gets the summary of a Statuspal status page, checks its status, services, active incidents and lists maintenances. You need to provide the URL to the Statuspal API summary endpoint.

Hints:

List of public Statuspal sites - Europe:

List of public Statuspal sites - USA:

Fact Sheet

Fact Value
Check Plugin Download https://github.com/Linuxfabrik/monitoring-plugins/tree/main/check-plugins/statuspal
Check Interval Recommendation Once a minute
Can be called without parameters Yes
Compiled for Windows No
3rd Party Python modules flatdict

Help

usage: statuspal [-h] [-V] [--always-ok] [--insecure] [--no-proxy]
                 [--test TEST] [--timeout TIMEOUT] [--url URL]

Statuspal is a status page provider from Germany. This check plugin gets the
summary of a Statuspal status page, checks its status, services, active
incidents and lists maintenances. You need to provide the URL to the Statuspal
API `summary` endpoint.

options:
  -h, --help         show this help message and exit
  -V, --version      show program's version number and exit
  --always-ok        Always returns OK.
  --insecure         This option explicitly allows to perform "insecure" SSL
                     connections. Default: False
  --no-proxy         Do not use a proxy. Default: False
  --test TEST        For unit tests. Needs "path-to-stdout-file,path-to-
                     stderr-file,expected-retc".
  --timeout TIMEOUT  Network timeout in seconds. Default: 8 (seconds)
  --url URL          Statuspal API URL. Default: https://statuspal.eu/api/v2/s
                     tatus_pages/exoscalestatus/summary

Usage statuspals

./statuspal --url=https://statuspal.eu/api/v2/status_pages/exoscalestatus/summary

Output:

Major incidents @ Exoscale (exoscale.com, TZ Europe/Zurich): [Network] Transient network disturbance / Situation has been resolved, we're monitoring the situation (2023-10-10 09:03:06) (see https://exoscalestatus.com/incidents/81315)

Service                            ! State 
-----------------------------------+-------
Global.DNS                         ! [OK]  
Global.Portal                      ! [OK]  
CH-GVA-2                           ! [OK]  
CH-GVA-2.API                       ! [OK]  
AT-VIE-1.Network Load Balancer NLB ! [CRITICAL] 
AT-VIE-1.Object Storage SOS        ! [OK]       
AT-VIE-2                           ! [CRITICAL] 

Upcoming Maintenance                                ! Type      ! Start               ! End      
----------------------------------------------------+-----------+---------------------+----------
Core Network Architecture - Internal routing update ! scheduled ! 2023-09-20 07:00:00 ! open end

./statuspal --url=https://statuspal.io/api/v2/status_pages/ascentlogistics/summary

Output:

Major incidents @ Ascent Global Logistics (ascentlogistics.com, TZ America/Detroit): Service PEAK - Customer API  Production seems to be down / According to our monitoring system this service has become unresponsive, we're investigating. (2022-04-20 18:27:16)

Service                               ! State      
--------------------------------------+------------
Ascent Websites.Main Ascent Website   ! [OK]       
PEAK.PEAK - Customer API  Integration ! [CRITICAL] 
PEAK.PEAK - Customer API  Production  ! [CRITICAL] 
Global IT Monitoring                  ! [CRITICAL]

States

  • WARN if minor incidents are found.
  • CRIT if major incidents are found.

Perfdata / Metrics

Name Type Description
cnt_crit Number Number of critical events
cnt_warn Number Number of warning events

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