ExceptionsBegone is Rails application for handling notifications (also exceptions) from your systems. The purpose of the system is to aggregate anything you send to it and it’s meant for projects which cannot share its exceptions with other companies (privacy policy).
BTW: it is a tool. It’s not supposed to win any design awards (yet ;)
There are just few rules:
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you have to specify identifier (which will be used for bundling notifications)
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specify category
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and not forget the payload
It is irrelevant if you sending this informations from a ruby, erlang, java, php, c# application or from a console. We provide a ruby gem - exceptions_begone_notifier which hooks itself into rails application, catches exceptions and provides some easy to use sender methods. If you need something else: just hack it :)
This application is under heavy development, however is stable to be use in production.
It just a normal Rails application. Capistrano will help you to put it live.
Here is an example how the message could look like (in JSON)
{
"notification": {
"category": "nagios",
"payload": {
"message": "memory warning",
"host": "my_big_host",
"some_important": "informations"
},
"identifier": "solr indexer"
}
}
payload could be everything you can imagine.
and you could POST it to the chosen project: localhost:3000/projects/preview/notifications where preview would be the project name.
See CURL_TESTS for curl examples.
The user doesn’t have to log in into the system. But only a logged in user can “work” on an incoming exception. It means he can click the “processing” button which will put his name on the exception and change it status to “in progress”. After fixing the code he can click on “done” and remove the exception from the view.
The first exception of the bundle(stack) will be send via email to the specified email address. This behavior is not configurable right now (and that should change). You can also specified a threshold on a project show page which will send an email with a high priority if number of the same exceptions reach set value.
The other way to stay up-to-date with notifications is to subscribe to the atom feed.
If you don’t want to carry about some sort of exceptions go to exclusions and specify a filter (regex). After that this particular messages won’t be show in the default view.
There are many more feature on the way (also redesign) but I will be happy about any contribution which could make this tool great for any developers in the world.
I will also try to make this readme more worth reading. Stay tuned!
XING Team
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