Server Monitoring Command for Laravel

Eric L. Barnes
Laravel News
Published in
2 min readApr 6, 2016

Server Monitoring is a package that will periodically monitor the health of your server and website. It provides healthy/alarm status notifications for Disk Usage, an HTTP Ping function to monitor the health of external services and a validation/expiration monitor for SSL Certificates.

This package works by setting up a config file and then having a monitor:run artisan command set on a schedule. When it runs it will alert you via email, Pushover, Slack, or logged to the filesystem.

It currently supports the following monitors:

Disk Usage Monitors

Disk usage monitors check the percentage of the storage space that is used on the given partition and alert if the percentage exceeds the configurable alarm percentage.

HTTP Ping Monitors

HTTP Ping monitors perform a simple page request and alert if the HTTP status code is not 200. They can optionally check that a certain phrase is included in the source of the page.

SSL Certificate Monitors

SSL Certificate monitors pull the SSL certificate for the configured URL and make sure it is valid for that URL. Wildcard and multi-domain certificates are supported.

The monitor will alert if the certificate is invalid or expired, and will also alert when the expiration date is approaching. The days on which to alert prior to expiration is also configurable.

You can find out more about this package on Github.

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Eric L. Barnes
Laravel News

A developer, maker, and writer of things on @laravelnews and @dotdevco You can follow me at @ericlbarnes