Pingdom Configuration

Note

Currently we do not have access to Pingdom account that's why Tests are not verified. Community members having Pingdom account are welcome to contribute in Test Cases.

Basic

The following properties need to be configured for Pingdom, in addition to the general properties listed in the Configuration section of the README:

Key	Description
apiToken	Pingdom API Token generated inside My Pingdom

Optional

The following optional properties can be included if you want to declare some default options, without re-declaring them for each EndpointMonitor. You are able to override any of them via EndpointMonitor specific options.

Key	Description
alertIntegrations	- separated list of integration ids
teamAlertContacts	- separated list of teams ids
alertContacts	- separated list of alert contacts ids

Advanced

Currently additional pingdom configurations can be added through these fields:

Fields	Description
Resolution	The pingdom check interval in minutes
SendNotificationWhenDown	How many failed check attempts before notifying
Paused	Set to "true" to pause checks
NotifyWhenBackUp	Set to "false" to disable recovery notifications
PostDataEnvVar	Send post data. - see below
RequestHeaders	Custom request headers (e.g. {"Accept"="application/json"})
RequestHeadersEnvVar	Custom request headers that should be stored in an environemnt variable, e.g., authentication headers. Behaves the same as PostDataEnvVar - see below
BasicAuthUser	Required for basic-authentication checks - see below
ShouldContain	Set to text string that has to be present in the HTML code of the page (configures "Should contain")
Tags	Comma separated set of tags to apply to check (e.g. "testing,aws")
AlertIntegrations	- separated set list of integrations ids (e.g. "91166-12168")
AlertContacts	- separated contact id's (e.g. "1234567_8_9-9876543_2_1") to override the default alertContacts
TeamAlertContacts	Teams to alert. - separated set list of teams ids (e.g. "1234567_8_9-9876543_2_1)

Basic Auth checks

Pingdom supports checks completing basic auth requirements. In EndpointMonitor the field basicAuthUser can be used to trigger the Ingress Monitor attempting to configure this setting. The value of the field should be the username to be configured. The Ingress Monitor Controller will then attempt to access an OS env variable of the same name which will return the password that should be used. The env variable can be mounted within the Ingress Monitor Controller container via a secret.

For example; setting the field like basicAuthUser: health-service will set the username field to 'health-service' and will retrieve the password via os.Getenv('health-service') and set this appropriately.

Post Data checks

In case you need add post data to your request, you can use the field postDataEnvVar. The value must match a environment variable that contains the post data to be sent.

For example; setting the field like postDataEnvVar: monitor-user will set the post data field to the value of the environment variable monitor-user.

To add the environment variable in helm context, first create a secret e.g.

kind: Secret
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
  name: stakater-post-data
stringData:
  monitor-user: "username=stakater&password=stakater"
type: Opaque

Then we reference secret in the env context of helm chart

envFrom:
  - secretRef:
      name: stakater-post-data

If you set postDataEnvVar the request method will be automatically POST.

Example

apiVersion: endpointmonitor.stakater.com/v1alpha1
kind: EndpointMonitor
metadata:
  name: stakater
spec:
  forceHttps: true
  url: https://stakater.com/
  pingdomConfig:
    resolution: 10
    sendNotificationWhenDown: true
    paused: false
    notifyWhenBackUp: false
    requestHeaders: {"Accept"="application/json"}
    basicAuthUser: health-service
    shouldContain: "must have text"
    tags: "testing,aws"
    alertIntegrations: "91166-12168"
    alertContacts: "1234567_8_9-9876543_2_1,1234567_8_9-9876543_2_2"
    teamAlertContacts: "1234567_8_9-9876543_2_1,1234567_8_9-9876543_2_2"
    postDataEnvVar: "monitor-user"