url-heartbeat

This is a simple container that will perform a GET call against a URL and log the response code. It is intended to be used with services that require a heartbeat such as Uptime Robot, etc.

Getting Started

These instructions will cover usage information and for the docker container

Prerequisities

In order to run this container you'll need docker installed.

• Windows
• OS X
• Linux

Usage

Call https://example.com every 2 minutes with a 5 second timeout:

docker run as6o/url-heartbeat:latest -e URL=https://example.com -e PERIOD=120 -e TIMEOUT=5

Environment Variables

• URL - The URL that will be called via GET (default: )
• PERIOD - The period in seconds between calls (default: 60)
• TIMEOUT - The timeout in seconds for the call (default: 2.0)

Logging

Messages are sent to stdout and errors are sent to stderr.

Find Us

• GitHub

Authors

• Aaron Siri - Initial work - as6o

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details.