This is a simple HTTP monitoring service built on heroku's experimental node.js support. Authentication is based on github oauth.
You need a few config variables set in your heroku environment, you'll need similar environmental variables set to run this locally.
% heroku config:add GITHUB_CALLBACK="http:https://http-pulse.atmos.org/auth/github/callback"
% heroku config:add GITHUB_CLIENT_ID="<your github client id>"
% heroku config:add GITHUB_SECRET="<your github secret>"
% heroku config:add EXPRESS_ENV="production"
% heroku addons:add mongohq:free
% git push heroku master
You should be able to visit your site and login via github.
To list your monitors
% curl -vv http:https://http-pulse.atmos.org/v1/<your token>/monitors
To create a monitor
% curl -vv -X POST -d "url=http:https://www.atmos.org" http:https://http-pulse.atmos.org/v1/<your token>/monitors
To delete a monitor
% curl -vv -X DELETE http:https://http-pulse.atmos.org/v1/<your token>/monitors/<object id from list>
I wanted to learn how to use mongodb and simple workers on heroku. The is what I came up with.