pingdominator

Opinionatedly Setup Pingdom Alerts during Deployment.

This is a Capistrano 3.x plugin, and relies on SSH access, as well as curl installed on the hosts.

• gem install pingdominator (Or add it to your Gemfile and bundle install.)
• Add "require 'pingdominator'" to your Capfile echo "require 'pingdominator'" >> Capfile
• Create example configs: cap staging pingdom:write_example_configs
• Turn them into real configs by removing the _example portions of their names, and adjusting their content to fit your needs. (Later when you upgrade to a newer version of pingdominator, you can pingdom:write_example_configs again and diff your current configs against the new configs to see what you need to add.)
• Add the "pingdom" role to the servers for which you want ping alerts setup.

cap -T will help remind you of the available commands, see this for more details.

• After setting up your deploy.rb config file during installation, simply run: cap <stage> pingdom:setup
• Run cap <stage> pingdom:setup again to see it find everything is already setup, and do nothing.
• Run cap <stage> pingdom:setup:force to be offered to delete and recreate the alert.
• Run cap <stage> pingdom:status to see the status of the alert.

• You can add the --trace option at the end of a command to see when which tasks are invoked, and when which task is actually executed.
• If you want to put on your DevOps hat, you can run cap -T -A to see each individually available task, and run them one at a time to debug each one.