xanubi/monit-slack repository overview

⁠Introduction

Monitor Containers for Health checks, and send Slack Notifications, when Containers Run Into Problems/down.

⁠General Idea

Start a container in the target docker host. This container will query status for all containers. curl -XGET --unix-socket /var/run/docker.sock http://localhost/containers/json

Send slack notifications, we get matched of "unhealthy"

NOTE: This image is based on Python Alpine image, and scanned for vulnerabilities with anchore.io

⁠How To Use: Plain Container

Create a .env file and a docker-compose.yml file, put both on the same directory.

⁠The .env file:

SLACK_CHANNEL=XXX
SLACK_USERNAME=XXX
SLACK_TOKEN=xoxp-XXX-XXX-XXX-XXXXXXXX
MSG_PREFIX=Monitoring On XX.XX.XX.XX

⁠The Docker-compose file

version: '3'
services:
  monit-slack:
    container_name: monitslack
    restart: always
    image: xanubi/monit-slack:latest
    environment:
      SLACK_CHANNEL: ${SLACK_CHANNEL}
      SLACK_USERNAME: ${SLACK_USERNAME}
      SLACK_TOKEN: ${SLACK_TOKEN}
      MSG_PREFIX: ${MSG_PREFIX}
    volumes:
      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock

⁠Security

This image is continuous scanned by Anchor.io, for security bugs. You can check it at anchore.io : https://goo.gl/ZhQRra⁠

⁠Conclusion

And that's it. You can add this to your docker composer file of your project, and your containers are health checked.