Add disable-monitoring-lock configuration parameter

README.md

@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ core applications: https://status.twinnation.org/
   - [Recommended interval](#recommended-interval)
   - [Default timeouts](#default-timeouts)
   - [Monitoring a TCP service](#monitoring-a-tcp-service)
+  - [disable-monitoring-lock](#disable-monitoring-lock)
 
 
 ## Features
@@ -119,6 +120,7 @@ Note that you can also add environment variables in the configuration file (i.e.
 | `security.basic`                         | Basic authentication security configuration                                   | `{}`           |
 | `security.basic.username`                | Username for Basic authentication                                             | Required `""`  |
 | `security.basic.password-sha512`         | Password's SHA512 hash for Basic authentication                               | Required `""`  |
+| `disable-monitoring-lock`                | Whether to [disable the monitoring lock](#disable-monitoring-lock)            | `false`        |
 
 
 ### Conditions
@@ -361,7 +363,10 @@ will send a `POST` request to `http://localhost:8080/playground` with the follow
 
 ### Recommended interval
 
-To ensure that Gatus provides reliable and accurate results (i.e. response time), Gatus only evaluates one service at a time. 
+**NOTE**: This does not _really_ apply if `disable-monitoring-lock` is set to `true`, as the monitoring lock is what
+tells Gatus to only evaluate one service at a time.
+
+To ensure that Gatus provides reliable and accurate results (i.e. response time), Gatus only evaluates one service at a time
 In other words, even if you have multiple services with the exact same interval, they will not execute at the same time.
 
 You can test this yourself by running Gatus with several services configured with a very short, unrealistic interval, 
@@ -428,3 +433,15 @@ security:
 ```
 
 The example above will require that you authenticate with the username `john.doe` as well as the password `hunter2`.
+
+
+### disable-monitoring-lock
+
+Setting `disable-monitoring-lock` to `true` means that multiple services could be monitored at the same time.
+
+While this behavior wouldn't generally be harmful, conditions using the `[RESPONSE_TIME]` placeholder could be impacted 
+by the evaluation of multiple services at the same time, therefore, the default value for this parameter is `false`.
+
+There are two main reasons why you might want to disable the monitoring lock:
+- You're using Gatus for load testing (I mean, technically, each services run on a different goroutine... If you )
+- You have a _lot_ of services to monitor

config/config.go

@@ -28,10 +28,24 @@ var (
 
 // Config is the main configuration structure
 type Config struct {
-	Metrics  bool             `yaml:"metrics"`
+	// Debug Whether to enable debug logs
 	Debug bool `yaml:"debug"`
+
+	// Metrics Whether to expose metrics at /metrics
+	Metrics bool `yaml:"metrics"`
+
+	// DisableMonitoringLock Whether to disable the monitoring lock
+	// The monitoring lock is what prevents multiple services from being processed at the same time.
+	// Disabling this may lead to inaccurate response times
+	DisableMonitoringLock bool `yaml:"disable-monitoring-lock"`
+
+	// Security Configuration for securing access to Gatus
 	Security *security.Config `yaml:"security"`
+
+	// Alerting Configuration for alerting
 	Alerting *alerting.Config `yaml:"alerting"`
+
+	// Services List of services to monitor
 	Services []*core.Service `yaml:"services"`
 }
 

watchdog/watchdog.go

@@ -44,9 +44,11 @@ func Monitor(cfg *config.Config) {
 func monitor(service *core.Service) {
 	cfg := config.Get()
 	for {
+		if !cfg.DisableMonitoringLock {
 			// By placing the lock here, we prevent multiple services from being monitored at the exact same time, which
 			// could cause performance issues and return inaccurate results
 			monitoringMutex.Lock()
+		}
 		if cfg.Debug {
 			log.Printf("[watchdog][monitor] Monitoring serviceName=%s", service.Name)
 		}
@@ -74,7 +76,9 @@ func monitor(service *core.Service) {
 		if cfg.Debug {
 			log.Printf("[watchdog][monitor] Waiting for interval=%s before monitoring serviceName=%s again", service.Interval, service.Name)
 		}
+		if !cfg.DisableMonitoringLock {
 			monitoringMutex.Unlock()
+		}
 		time.Sleep(service.Interval)
 	}
 }