Upbeat is a high performance node-based healthcheck/dashboard. Upbeat allows you to run health checks and provides a dashboard to chart the performance. It also allows you to proxy and cache these health checks so they don't tax your system. You can now reduces the number of health checks to a service from O(N) to O(1).

As executable

npm install -g upbeat

Run upbeat

upbeat config.yml

As library

npm install upbeat

var upbeat = require('upbeat');
var server = new upbeat.Server(configObject);
server.run();

Quickstart config:

dashboard:
  port: 2468

sync:
  redis: 
    port: 6379
    host: localhost
  
services:
  google:
    www:
      strategy: http
      url: https://www.google.com
    connection:
      strategy: tcp
      host: google.com
      port: 80