Service Monitoring Script

Overview

This Python script monitors the status of system services on a Linux machine. It checks the services managed by systemd, forwarding notifications through various messaging services when the crevice status changes detected.

Features

• Service Status Monitoring: Regularly checks if specified services are active or inactive.
• Real-time notifications with support for multiple accounts via:
  • Telegram
  • Discord
  • Slack
  • Gotify
  • Ntfy
  • Pushbullet
  • Pushover
  • Rocket.chat
  • Matrix
  • Mattermost
  • Floc
  • Pumble
  • Zulip
  • Apprise
  • Webntfy
  • Custom webhook
• Configuration: Easily configurable through JSON files for notification settings and excluded services.
• Polling Period: Adjustable polling interval to check service status.

Requirements

• Python 3.x
• Docker installed and running
• Dependencies: requests, schedule

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/2boom-ua/check_services.git
cd check_services

Install required Python packages:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Edit config.json:

You can use any name and any number of records for each messaging platform configuration, and you can also mix platforms as needed. The number of message platform configurations is unlimited.

Configuration examples for Telegram, Matrix, Apprise, Pumble, Mattermost, Discord, Ntfy, Gotify, Zulip, Flock, Slack, Rocket.Chat, Pushover, Pushbullet, Webntfy

    "CUSTOM_NAME": {
        "ENABLED": false,
        "WEBHOOK_URL": [
            "first url",
            "second url",
            "...."
        ],
        "HEADER": [
            {first JSON structure},
            {second JSON structure},
            {....}
        ],
        "PYLOAD": [
            {first JSON structure},
            {second JSON structure},
            {....}
        ],
        "FORMAT_MESSAGE": [
            "markdown",
            "html",
            "...."
        ]
    },

Item	Required	Description
ENABLED	true/false	Enable or disable Custom notifications
WEBHOOK_URL	url	The URL of your Custom webhook
HEADER	JSON structure	HTTP headers for each webhook request. This varies per service and may include fields like {"Content-Type": "application/json"}.
PAYLOAD	JSON structure	The JSON payload structure for each service, which usually includes message content and format. Like as {"body": "message", "type": "info", "format": "markdown"}
FORMAT_MESSAGE	markdown, html, text, simplified	Specifies the message format used by each service, such as markdown, html, or other text formatting.

• markdown - a text-based format with lightweight syntax for basic styling (Pumble, Mattermost, Discord, Ntfy, Gotify),
• simplified - simplified standard Markdown (Telegram, Zulip, Flock, Slack, RocketChat).
• html - a web-based format using tags for advanced text styling,
• text - raw text without any styling or formatting.

 "DEFAULT_DOT_STYLE": true,
    "MIN_REPEAT": 1

Item	Required	Description
DEFAULT_DOT_STYLE	true/false	Round/Square dots.
MIN_REPEAT	1	Set the poll period in minutes. Minimum is 1 minute.

Edit exlude_service.json:

A exlude_service.json file in the same directory as the script, include the name of the services that aren't monitored. the presence of the file is not necessary

{
   "LIST": [
      "fisrtservicename.service",
      "secondservicename.service",
      "..."
   ]
}

Running as a Linux Service

You can set this script to run as a Linux service for continuous monitoring.

Create a systemd service file:

nano /etc/systemd/system/check_services.service

Add the following content:

[Unit]
Description=services state change monitor
After=multi-user.target

[Service]
Type=simple
Restart=always
ExecStart=/usr/bin/python3 /opt/check_services/check_services.py

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

systemctl daemon-reload

systemctl enable check_services.service

systemctl start check_services.service

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the MIT License for details.

Author

• 2boom - GitHub