Project Direction Questions

[benyanke]

Hello,

This tool looks to be exactly what I need.

Would you be open to PRs if I were to add other features, such as these?

• Alternate notification channels
  • such as SMS APIs like Twilio
• Other metrics to watch
  • Load time - get alerts if the site loads too slowly
  • DNS change - get alerts if the ip changes (useful information point when a service is running on a dynamic IP)
  • Minimum/maximum return body size - ensure you're not returning a 200, but with little-to-no actual content
  • grep for content on the body - for example "Error Establishing a Database Connection" is an error which appears on Wordpress sites if the database is not available - error state could be either presence or absence of a given string in the page body
  • "deadman's ping" - send an alert if an API call is not made to this monitoring app in a given amount of time

These are just a few ideas which could be great expansions on your project, which I might be able to help add.

[freekmurze]

such as SMS APIs like Twilio

If you need other notification channels, you can install the underlying package into a Laravel app of your own. The packages just uses Laravel's standard notification features, so it should be fairly straightforward to add a driver for your favourite notification provider in your Laravel app.

Other metrics to watch

I'm open for PRs to l the underlying package that add functionality as long as the implementation is easy to follow, non-breaking and fully tested. If you want to go ahead, best to PR one single new metric at a time.

I'm closing this issue here, send PRs to this repo: https://github.com/spatie/laravel-uptime-monitor

[benyanke]

Excellent - thank you.