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[brettlangdon]

This service is going to basically be a way to configure the teams and other settings for running the engine and will need an api for the checks to report to as well as end points for the front end to communicate with.

• check reporting end point
• configuration end points (this way the UI can configure the engine)
• get status end points
• etc

[brettlangdon]

For this service I am thinking just a simple JSON REST server, maybe using flask (personal preference for python web framework).

Also, what should we do about security? We probably want to think of a way we can whitelist which hosts can access the api, or maybe just have the engine generate some access keys that need to be sent with every request?

[yzguy]

Hey, what about this. It's called Sandman.io It essentially creates a REST API for your database

https://github.com/jeffknupp/sandman http://sandman.io

Sounds exactly like what we are trying to do, but doing it for us.

[brettlangdon]

yeah, seems like it for the most part.

how does it handle things like security?

can we write custom endpoints for it to do custom logic?

[yzguy]

I'm sure we could.

[brettlangdon]

@yzguy can you throw together a quick prototype of using sandman?

[yzguy]

Yes, I'll try to get something together today or tomorrow.

[yzguy]

Sorry, have been busy.

What do you think about this? http://sensuapp.org/

[brettlangdon]

well, I have been thinking about it, we could actually use something like https://github.com/etsy/statsd maybe?

idk, my life is relatively busy, so... someone needs to try and prototype something ;)

[andolojm]

https://sandman.readthedocs.org/en/latest/using_sandman.html

Sandman can do custom endpoints. See the "Providing a custom endpoint" section.

[andolojm]

Thinking of what we need to track, our DB could probably be this simple: