Potential support for heartbeats?

[kashalls]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Some services like Prometheus's Alert Manager allows you to send out a request at a set interval as sort of a keep alive. It would be cool to allow kener to allow receiving HTTP GET/POST requests to mark a monitor as up. Super helpful for endpoints where you can't exactly jump a firewall or allow traffic.

Describe the solution you'd like

Kind of like the badge endpoints: GET/POST http://[hostname]/heartbeat/[tag]/status with an optional query parameter that acts like a key for proof of identity.

[rajnandan1]

Hi

There is an api for this. PoSt /status

[kashalls]

Hi

There is an api for this. PoSt /status

I don't think that's what we want in this case. I was referring to a type of monitor here: https://kener.ing/docs/monitors/#monitor-type

[rajnandan1]

Hi
There is an api for this. PoSt /status

I don't think that's what we want in this case. I was referring to a type of monitor here: https://kener.ing/docs/monitors/#monitor-type

Just to be clear can you please help me what this new monitor type would do. If there is an example of someone else who gives this option I will be able to figure it out. Thanks

[pskuza]

+1 from me, since I want to switch from Uptime Kuma. It would work like the Push Passive Monitor there.
Some more info here

[kashalls]

Just to be clear can you please help me what this new monitor type would do. If there is an example of someone else who gives this option I will be able to figure it out. Thanks

A good example would be UptimeRobot's Heartbeat Monitoring. Essentially, the server expects to see a GET/POST request to a per-negotiated url. A device can be configured with a cronjob to automatically curl that endpoint at a set interval.

*/5 * * * * wget --spider "https://<fqdn>/heartbeat/<uuid>" >/dev/null 2>&1

Optionally, you can pass a secret in the post data to "authenticate" the curl job.
This type of job is usually helpful for workloads that don't necessarily expose endpoints to the internet, rather rely on the device to be monitored to make that call.