Forum Discussion

Tom_S-L's avatar
Tom_S-L
6 years ago

Three hosts, one service check?

Hi,

I have a datasource that uses a regex to pull values out of some JSON and graphs numerous values. This runs on multiple hosts and the host goes critical if a particular value hits 0.

I don't want the individual servers to go critical, I'd like a service/website check to go critical if two out of three sites return the zero value in their JSON response.

I can write a datasource to check the JSON from each site but then I have to apply it to a host, or multiple hosts, and that defeats the point as I don't care if a single one goes away.

 

Is it possible to create a website check that takes in the JSON, extracts the data required, then passes it on to be used in another step which checks the next site, can I alert on values within the response? Is this even the right way to do it?

 

It would be great if a datasource could be run from a collector group rather than tied to a specific host!

json
service
website

2 Replies

Sort By
Replies have been turned off for this discussion
  • Kerry_DeVilbiss's avatar
    Kerry_DeVilbiss
    Icon for Employee rankEmployee
    6 years ago

    @Tom S-L - using our internal website checks (with multiple collectors as checkpoints,) you could check the JSON path for that specific datapoint to make sure that '0' is not present - and alert if it is in fact found (on a certain number of collectors of those you have specified.) For example:

    I think that should work for the use case you've outlined. And just in case it's helpful, here's a set of links to the more advanced creation of scripted internal website checks:

    Cheers,

    Kerry

  • Tom_S-L's avatar
    Tom_S-L
    6 years ago
    On 6/20/2018 at 9:47 PM, Kerry DeVilbiss said:

    @Tom S-L - using our internal website checks (with multiple collectors as checkpoints,) you could check the JSON path for that specific datapoint to make sure that '0' is not present - and alert if it is in fact found (on a certain number of collectors of those you have specified.) For example

    I think that should work for the use case you've outlined. And just in case it's helpful, here's a set of links to the more advanced creation of scripted internal website checks:

    Cheers,

    Kerry

    Thanks Kerry, this is a good start.

    As stated I need to check datapoints from multiple servers and alert if, say, 2/3 had an issue. If I can pass the result on to more steps then this will work as a website check.