dsportal Copyright 2017 Callan Bryant callan.bryant@gmail.com

Dsportal is a web application that exhibits web applications, applying health checks to the applications and hosting platforms beneath.

Architecture

Entities

• Host
• Service

Health checks

Workers

Installation

Server:

1. Install via pip
2. Set up nginx reverse proxy, preferably with SSL. Optionally serve static files via nginx.
3. Add systemd template to run dsportal-server.

Of course, the same but (2) applies to set up a worker.

sudo pip install . (python 3 pip!)

For development, pip install -e . will link a global install.

Alarm fatigue

• False positives
• Multiple notifications for the same problem
• Notifications that require no human action
• Everything's fine notifications
• Toggling notifications due to intermittent test
• Cascade test failures