tinystatus is a small shell script that checks service availability and writes the results as an HTML page. It suits administrators who want a straightforward status overview without running a separate dashboard application or database.
A CSV file defines the checks, their expected results and the names displayed to visitors. Each invocation produces a snapshot of service conditions; regularly refreshed monitoring therefore requires an external scheduler.
Incident and maintenance information is maintained separately in a text file. This history is written by the administrator rather than automatically reconstructed from earlier checks.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Run checks in parallel so services are not tested one after another.
- Check HTTP endpoints against a configurable expected response code, including responses such as authentication-required status codes.
- Follow HTTP redirects when testing web addresses.
- Use ping to test whether a host responds, and TCP port checks to test listening services.
- Select IPv4-only or IPv6-only variants of the supported checks.
- Arrange services into named groups while preserving their configured order.
- Show individual services as operational or disrupted, with diagnostic information for failed checks.
- Display an overall operational message or a count of detected outages.
- Include the timestamp of the most recent check.
- Publish manually maintained incident and maintenance notes beneath the service list.
- Adapt the generated page to the visitor’s light or dark appearance preference.
- Customise the page title, heading and check timeout through script configuration.
- Write self-contained HTML with embedded styling to standard output.
- Optionally return the outage count as the script’s exit status for use in other automation.
Website: github.com/bderenzo/tinystatus
Support:
Developer: Baptiste De Renzo and contributors
License: MIT License
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