This tool shows up/warn/down state of configured hosts or applications using i3bar input protocol.

Usage

You should create a configuration file .checkbar.toml in your home directory, e.g.

# Update interval in seconds. Default value if not set is 60 sec.
interval = 60

[[checks]]
name = "Host 1"
url = "https://host1.example.com"

[[checks]]
name = "Host 2"
url = "https://host2.example.com"

[[checks]]
name = "App 1"
url = "https://app.example.com/actuator/health"
check_type = "Actuator"

Each host or application to be checked consists of name and url.

You can optionally specify check_type:

• Html: Default value, checks if a request is successful and returns HTTP OK - 200.

• Actuator: Like Html, but checks if Actuator shows that the application is up and running.

  • Up: Actuator response indicates, application is up and running.

  • Warn: Got response but it is not Actuator health UP response or redirect.

  • Down: No response.

To use more than one configuration, pass the config file location as first argument to the application.

$ checkbar /etc/checkbar_example.toml

Colors

To change the colors, use the following configuration. As an example the colors of the default configuration are shown.

...
[colors]
up = "#00FF00"
warn = "#FFFF00"
down = "#FF0000"
...

The color configuration is optional. If used, all colors must be specified.

Execute commands

You can also specify a command to be executed when a mouse click occurs on a checked host. Use click_cmd to specify the command to be executed, e.g.

...
[[checks]]
name = "Host 1"
url = "http://host1.example.com"
click_cmd = "xterm -e ssh admin@host1.example.com"
...