Gatus is a developer-oriented health dashboard that gives you the ability to monitor your services using HTTP, ICMP, TCP, and even DNS queries as well as evaluate the result of said queries by using a list of conditions on values like the status code, the response time, the certificate expiration, the body and many others. The icing on top is that each of these health checks can be paired with alerting via Slack, PagerDuty, Pushover, Discord, Twilio and more.

I personally deploy it in my Kubernetes cluster and let it monitor the status of my core applications: https://status.twin.sh/

Quick start

docker run -p 8080:8080 --name gatus twinproduction/gatus

You can also use GitHub Container Registry if you prefer:

docker run -p 8080:8080 --name gatus ghcr.io/twin/gatus

For more details, see Usage

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Table of Contents

• Why Gatus?
• Features
• Usage
• Configuration
  • Conditions
    • Placeholders
    • Functions
  • Storage
  • Client configuration
  • Alerting
    • Configuring Discord alerts
    • Configuring Email alerts
    • Configuring GitHub alerts
    • Configuring Google Chat alerts
    • Configuring Matrix alerts
    • Configuring Mattermost alerts
    • Configuring Messagebird alerts
    • Configuring Ntfy alerts
    • Configuring Opsgenie alerts
    • Configuring PagerDuty alerts
    • Configuring Pushover alerts
    • Configuring Slack alerts
    • Configuring Teams alerts
    • Configuring Telegram alerts
    • Configuring Twilio alerts
    • Configuring custom alerts
    • Setting a default alert
  • Maintenance
  • Security
    • Basic
    • OIDC
  • Metrics
  • Remote instances (EXPERIMENTAL)
• Deployment
  • Docker
  • Helm Chart
  • Terraform
• Running the tests
• Using in Production
• FAQ
  • Sending a GraphQL request
  • Recommended interval
  • Default timeouts
  • Monitoring a TCP endpoint
  • Monitoring a UDP endpoint
  • Monitoring a SCTP endpoint
  • Monitoring an endpoint using ICMP
  • Monitoring an endpoint using DNS queries
  • Monitoring an endpoint using STARTTLS
  • Monitoring an endpoint using TLS
  • Monitoring domain expiration
  • disable-monitoring-lock
  • Reloading configuration on the fly
  • Endpoint groups
  • Exposing Gatus on a custom port
  • Keeping your configuration small
  • Badges
    • Uptime
    • Health
    • Response time
  • API
  • High level design overview
• Sponsors

Why Gatus?

Before getting into the specifics, I want to address the most common question:

Why would I use Gatus when I can just use Prometheus’ Alertmanager, Cloudwatch or even Splunk?

Neither of these can tell you that there’s a problem if there are no clients actively calling the endpoint. In other words, it's because monitoring metrics mostly rely on existing traffic, which effectively means that unless your clients are already experiencing a problem, you won't be notified.

Gatus, on the other hand, allows you to configure health checks for each of your features, which in turn allows it to monitor these features and potentially alert you before any clients are impacted.

A sign you may want to look into Gatus is by simply asking yourself whether you'd receive an alert if your load balancer was to go down right now. Will any of your existing alerts be triggered? Your metrics won’t report an increase in errors if no traffic makes it to your applications. This puts you in a situation where your clients are the ones that will notify you about the degradation of your services rather than you reassuring them that you're working on fixing the issue before they even know about it.

Features

The main features of Gatus are:

• Highly flexible health check conditions: While checking the response status may be enough for some use cases, Gatus goes much further and allows you to add conditions on the response time, the response body and even the IP address.
• Ability to use Gatus for user acceptance tests: Thanks to the point above, you can leverage this application to create automated user acceptance tests.
• Very easy to configure: Not only is the configuration designed to be as readable as possible, it's also extremely easy to add a new service or a new endpoint to monitor.
• Alerting: While having a pretty visual dashboard is useful to keep track of the state of your application(s), you probably don't want to stare at it all day. Thus, notifications via Slack, Mattermost, Messagebird, PagerDuty, Twilio, Google chat and Teams are supported out of the box with the ability to configure a custom alerting provider for any needs you might have, whether it be a different provider or a custom application that manages automated rollbacks.
• Metrics
• Low resource consumption: As with most Go applications, the resource footprint that this application requires is negligibly small.
• Badges:
• Dark mode

Usage

Quick start

docker run -p 8080:8080 --name gatus twinproduction/gatus

You can also use GitHub Container Registry if you prefer:

docker run -p 8080:8080 --name gatus ghcr.io/twin/gatus

If you want to create your own configuration, see Docker for information on how to mount a configuration file.

Here's a simple example:

endpoints:
  - name: website                 # Name of your endpoint, can be anything
    url: "https://twin.sh/health"
    interval: 5m                  # Duration to wait between every status check (default: 60s)
    conditions:
      - "[STATUS] == 200"         # Status must be 200
      - "[BODY].status == UP"     # The json path "$.status" must be equal to UP
      - "[RESPONSE_TIME] < 300"   # Response time must be under 300ms

  - name: make-sure-header-is-rendered
    url: "https://example.org/"
    interval: 60s
    conditions:
      - "[STATUS] == 200"                          # Status must be 200
      - "[BODY] == pat(*<h1>Example Domain</h1>*)" # Body must contain the specified header

This example would look similar to this:

By default, the configuration file is expected to be at config/config.yaml.

You can specify a custom path by setting the GATUS_CONFIG_PATH environment variable.

If GATUS_CONFIG_PATH points to a directory, all *.yaml and *.yml files inside said directory and its subdirectories are merged like so:

• All maps/objects are deep merged (i.e. you could define alerting.slack in one file and alerting.pagerduty in another file)
• All slices/arrays are appended (i.e. you can define endpoints in multiple files and each endpoint will be added to the final list of endpoints)
• Parameters with a primitive value (e.g. debug, metrics, alerting.slack.webhook-url, etc.) may only be defined once to forcefully avoid any ambiguity
  • To clarify, this also means that you could not define alerting.slack.webhook-url in two files with different values. All files are merged into one before they are processed. This is by design.

💡 You can also use environment variables in the configuration file (e.g. $DOMAIN, ${DOMAIN})

If you want to test it locally, see Docker.

Configuration

Parameter	Description	Default
debug	Whether to enable debug logs.	false
metrics	Whether to expose metrics at /metrics.	false
storage	Storage configuration	{}
endpoints	List of endpoints to monitor.	Required []
endpoints[].enabled	Whether to monitor the endpoint.	true
endpoints[].name	Name of the endpoint. Can be anything.	Required ""
endpoints[].group	Group name. Used to group multiple endpoints together on the dashboard. See Endpoint groups.	""
endpoints[].url	URL to send the request to.	Required ""
endpoints[].method	Request method.	GET
endpoints[].conditions	Conditions used to determine the health of the endpoint. See Conditions.	[]
endpoints[].interval	Duration to wait between every status check.	60s
endpoints[].graphql	Whether to wrap the body in a query param ({"query":"$body"}).	false
endpoints[].body	Request body.	""
endpoints[].headers	Request headers.	{}
endpoints[].dns	Configuration for an endpoint of type DNS. See Monitoring an endpoint using DNS queries.	""
endpoints[].dns.query-type	Query type (e.g. MX)	""
endpoints[].dns.query-name	Query name (e.g. example.com)	""
endpoints[].alerts[].type	Type of alert. See Alerting for all valid types.	Required ""
endpoints[].alerts[].enabled	Whether to enable the alert.	true
endpoints[].alerts[].failure-threshold	Number of failures in a row needed before triggering the alert.	3
endpoints[].alerts[].success-threshold	Number of successes in a row before an ongoing incident is marked as resolved.	2
endpoints[].alerts[].send-on-resolved	Whether to send a notification once a triggered alert is marked as resolved.	false
endpoints[].alerts[].description	Description of the alert. Will be included in the alert sent.	""
endpoints[].client	Client configuration.	{}
endpoints[].ui	UI configuration at the endpoint level.	{}
endpoints[].ui.hide-hostname	Whether to hide the hostname in the result.	false
endpoints[].ui.hide-url	Whether to ensure the URL is not displayed in the results. Useful if the URL contains a token.	false
endpoints[].ui.dont-resolve-failed-conditions	Whether to resolve failed conditions for the UI.	false
endpoints[].ui.badge.reponse-time	List of response time thresholds. Each time a threshold is reached, the badge has a different color.	[50, 200, 300, 500, 750]
alerting	Alerting configuration.	{}
security	Security configuration.	{}
disable-monitoring-lock	Whether to disable the monitoring lock.	false
skip-invalid-config-update	Whether to ignore invalid configuration update. See Reloading configuration on the fly.	false
web	Web configuration.	{}
web.address	Address to listen on.	0.0.0.0
web.port	Port to listen on.	8080
ui	UI configuration.	{}
ui.title	Title of the document.	Health Dashboard ǀ Gatus
ui.description	Meta description for the page.	Gatus is an advanced....
ui.header	Header at the top of the dashboard.	Health Status
ui.logo	URL to the logo to display.	""
ui.link	Link to open when the logo is clicked.	""
ui.buttons	List of buttons to display below the header.	[]
ui.buttons[].name	Text to display on the button.	Required ""
ui.buttons[].link	Link to open when the button is clicked.	Required ""
maintenance	Maintenance configuration.	{}

Conditions

Here are some examples of conditions you can use:

Condition	Description	Passing values	Failing values
[STATUS] == 200	Status must be equal to 200	200	201, 404, ...
[STATUS] < 300	Status must lower than 300	200, 201, 299	301, 302, ...
[STATUS] <= 299	Status must be less than or equal to 299	200, 201, 299	301, 302, ...
[STATUS] > 400	Status must be greater than 400	401, 402, 403, 404	400, 200, ...
[STATUS] == any(200, 429)	Status must be either 200 or 429	200, 429	201, 400, ...
[CONNECTED] == true	Connection to host must've been successful	true	false
[RESPONSE_TIME] < 500	Response time must be below 500ms	100ms, 200ms, 300ms	500ms, 501ms
[IP] == 127.0.0.1	Target IP must be 127.0.0.1	127.0.0.1	0.0.0.0
[BODY] == 1	The body must be equal to 1	1	{}, 2, ...
[BODY].user.name == john	JSONPath value of $.user.name is equal to john	{"user":{"name":"john"}}
[BODY].data[0].id == 1	JSONPath value of $.data[0].id is equal to 1	{"data":[{"id":1}]}
[BODY].age == [BODY].id	JSONPath value of $.age is equal JSONPath $.id	{"age":1,"id":1}
len([BODY].data) < 5	Array at JSONPath $.data has less than 5 elements	{"data":[{"id":1}]}
len([BODY].name) == 8	String at JSONPath $.name has a length of 8	{"name":"john.doe"}	{"name":"bob"}
has([BODY].errors) == false	JSONPath $.errors does not exist	{"name":"john.doe"}	{"errors":[]}
has([BODY].users) == true	JSONPath $.users exists	{"users":[]}	{}
[BODY].name == pat(john*)	String at JSONPath $.name matches pattern john*	{"name":"john.doe"}	{"name":"bob"}
[BODY].id == any(1, 2)	Value at JSONPath $.id is equal to 1 or 2	1, 2	3, 4, 5
[CERTIFICATE_EXPIRATION] > 48h	Certificate expiration is more than 48h away	49h, 50h, 123h	1h, 24h, ...
[DOMAIN_EXPIRATION] > 720h	The domain must expire in more than 720h	4000h	1h, 24h, ...

Placeholders

Placeholder	Description	Example of resolved value
[STATUS]	Resolves into the HTTP status of the request	404
[RESPONSE_TIME]	Resolves into the response time the request took, in ms	10
[IP]	Resolves into the IP of the target host	192.168.0.232
[BODY]	Resolves into the response body. Supports JSONPath.	{"name":"john.doe"}
[CONNECTED]	Resolves into whether a connection could be established	true
[CERTIFICATE_EXPIRATION]	Resolves into the duration before certificate expiration (valid units are "s", "m", "h".)	24h, 48h, 0 (if not protocol with certs)
[DOMAIN_EXPIRATION]	Resolves into the duration before the domain expires (valid units are "s", "m", "h".)	24h, 48h, 1234h56m78s
[DNS_RCODE]	Resolves into the DNS status of the response	NOERROR

Functions

Function	Description	Example
len	If the given path leads to an array, returns its length. Otherwise, the JSON at the given path is minified and converted to a string, and the resulting number of characters is returned. Works only with the [BODY] placeholder.	len([BODY].username) > 8
has	Returns true or false based on whether a given path is valid. Works only with the [BODY] placeholder.	has([BODY].errors) == false
pat	Specifies that the string passed as parameter should be evaluated as a pattern. Works only with == and !=.	[IP] == pat(192.168.*)
any	Specifies that any one of the values passed as parameters is a valid value. Works only with == and !=.	[BODY].ip == any(127.0.0.1, ::1)

💡 Use pat only when you need to. [STATUS] == pat(2*) is a lot more expensive than [STATUS] < 300.

Storage

Parameter	Description	Default
storage	Storage configuration	{}
storage.path	Path to persist the data in. Only supported for types sqlite and postgres.	""
storage.type	Type of storage. Valid types: memory, sqlite, postgres.	"memory"
storage.caching	Whether to use write-through caching. Improves loading time for large dashboards. Only supported if storage.type is sqlite or postgres	false

The results for each endpoint health check as well as the data for uptime and the past events must be persisted so that they can be displayed on the dashboard. These parameters allow you to configure the storage in question.

• If storage.type is memory (default):

# Note that this is the default value, and you can omit the storage configuration altogether to achieve the same result.
# Because the data is stored in memory, the data will not survive a restart.
storage:
  type: memory

• If storage.type is sqlite, storage.path must not be blank:

storage:
  type: sqlite
  path: data.db

See examples/docker-compose-sqlite-storage for an example.

• If storage.type is postgres, storage.path must be the connection URL:

storage:
  type: postgres
  path: "postgres://user:password@127.0.0.1:5432/gatus?sslmode=disable"

See examples/docker-compose-postgres-storage for an example.

Client configuration

In order to support a wide range of environments, each monitored endpoint has a unique configuration for the client used to send the request.

Parameter	Description	Default
client.insecure	Whether to skip verifying the server's certificate chain and host name.	false
client.ignore-redirect	Whether to ignore redirects (true) or follow them (false, default).	false
client.timeout	Duration before timing out.	10s
client.dns-resolver	Override the DNS resolver using the format {proto}://{host}:{port}.	""
client.oauth2	OAuth2 client configuration.	{}
client.oauth2.token-url	The token endpoint URL	required ""
client.oauth2.client-id	The client id which should be used for the Client credentials flow	required ""
client.oauth2.client-secret	The client secret which should be used for the Client credentials flow	required ""
client.oauth2.scopes[]	A list of scopes which should be used for the Client credentials flow.	required [""]

📝 Some of these parameters are ignored based on the type of endpoint. For instance, there's no certificate involved in ICMP requests (ping), therefore, setting client.insecure to true for an endpoint of that type will not do anything.

This default configuration is as follows:

client:
  insecure: false
  ignore-redirect: false
  timeout: 10s

Note that this configuration is only available under endpoints[], alerting.mattermost and alerting.custom.

Here's an example with the client configuration under endpoints[]:

endpoints:
  - name: website
    url: "https://twin.sh/health"
    client:
      insecure: false
      ignore-redirect: false
      timeout: 10s
    conditions:
      - "[STATUS] == 200"

This example shows how you can specify a custom DNS resolver:

endpoints:
  - name: with-custom-dns-resolver
    url: "https://your.health.api/health"
    client:
      dns-resolver: "tcp://8.8.8.8:53"
    conditions:
      - "[STATUS] == 200"

This example shows how you can use the client.oauth2 configuration to query a backend API with Bearer token:

endpoints:
  - name: with-custom-oauth2
    url: "https://your.health.api/health"
    client:
      oauth2:
        token-url: https://your-token-server/token
        client-id: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
        client-secret: your-client-secret
        scopes: ['https://your.health.api/.default']
    conditions:
      - "[STATUS] == 200"

Alerting

Gatus supports multiple alerting providers, such as Slack and PagerDuty, and supports different alerts for each individual endpoints with configurable descriptions and thresholds.

📝 If an alerting provider is not properly configured, all alerts configured with the provider's type will be ignored.

Parameter	Description	Default
alerting.custom	Configuration for custom actions on failure or alerts. See Configuring Custom alerts.	{}
alerting.discord	Configuration for alerts of type discord. See Configuring Discord alerts.	{}
alerting.email	Configuration for alerts of type email. See Configuring Email alerts.	{}
alerting.github	Configuration for alerts of type github. See Configuring GitHub alerts.	{}
alerting.googlechat	Configuration for alerts of type googlechat. See Configuring Google Chat alerts.	{}
alerting.matrix	Configuration for alerts of type matrix. See Configuring Matrix alerts.	{}
alerting.mattermost	Configuration for alerts of type mattermost. See Configuring Mattermost alerts.	{}
alerting.messagebird	Configuration for alerts of type messagebird. See Configuring Messagebird alerts.	{}
alerting.ntfy	Configuration for alerts of type ntfy. See Configuring Ntfy alerts.	{}
alerting.opsgenie	Configuration for alerts of type opsgenie. See Configuring Opsgenie alerts.	{}
alerting.pagerduty	Configuration for alerts of type pagerduty. See Configuring PagerDuty alerts.	{}
alerting.pushover	Configuration for alerts of type pushover. See Configuring Pushover alerts.	{}
alerting.slack	Configuration for alerts of type slack. See Configuring Slack alerts.	{}
alerting.teams	Configuration for alerts of type teams. See Configuring Teams alerts.	{}
alerting.telegram	Configuration for alerts of type telegram. See Configuring Telegram alerts.	{}
alerting.twilio	Settings for alerts of type twilio. See Configuring Twilio alerts.	{}

Configuring Discord alerts

Parameter	Description	Default
alerting.discord	Configuration for alerts of type discord	{}
alerting.discord.webhook-url	Discord Webhook URL	Required ""
alerting.discord.default-alert	Default alert configuration. See Setting a default alert	N/A
alerting.discord.overrides	List of overrides that may be prioritized over the default configuration	[]
alerting.discord.overrides[].group	Endpoint group for which the configuration will be overridden by this configuration	""
alerting.discord.overrides[].webhook-url	Discord Webhook URL	""

alerting:
  discord:
    webhook-url: "https://discord.com/api/webhooks/**********/**********"

endpoints:
  - name: website
    url: "https://twin.sh/health"
    interval: 5m
    conditions:
      - "[STATUS] == 200"
      - "[BODY].status == UP"
      - "[RESPONSE_TIME] < 300"
    alerts:
      - type: discord
        description: "healthcheck failed"
        send-on-resolved: true

Configuring Email alerts

Parameter	Description	Default
alerting.email	Configuration for alerts of type email	{}
alerting.email.from	Email used to send the alert	Required ""
alerting.email.username	Username of the SMTP server used to send the alert. If empty, uses alerting.email.from.	""
alerting.email.password	Password of the SMTP server used to send the alert	Required ""
alerting.email.host	Host of the mail server (e.g. smtp.gmail.com)	Required ""
alerting.email.port	Port the mail server is listening to (e.g. 587)	Required 0
alerting.email.to	Email(s) to send the alerts to	Required ""
alerting.email.default-alert	Default alert configuration. See Setting a default alert	N/A
alerting.email.overrides	List of overrides that may be prioritized over the default configuration	[]
alerting.email.overrides[].group	Endpoint group for which the configuration will be overridden by this configuration	""
alerting.email.overrides[].to	Email(s) to send the alerts to	""

alerting:
  email:
    from: "from@example.com"
    username: "from@example.com"
    password: "hunter2"
    host: "mail.example.com"
    port: 587
    to: "recipient1@example.com,recipient2@example.com"
    # You can also add group-specific to keys, which will
    # override the to key above for the specified groups
    overrides:
      - group: "core"
        to: "recipient3@example.com,recipient4@example.com"

endpoints:
  - name: website
    url: "https://twin.sh/health"
    interval: 5m
    conditions:
      - "[STATUS] == 200"
      - "[BODY].status == UP"
      - "[RESPONSE_TIME] < 300"
    alerts:
      - type: email
        description: "healthcheck failed"
        send-on-resolved: true

  - name: back-end
    group: core
    url: "https://example.org/"
    interval: 5m
    conditions:
      - "[STATUS] == 200"
      - "[CERTIFICATE_EXPIRATION] > 48h"
    alerts:
      - type: email
        description: "healthcheck failed"
        send-on-resolved: true

⚠ Some mail servers are painfully slow.

Configuring GitHub alerts

Parameter	Description	Default
alerting.github	Configuration for alerts of type github	{}
alerting.github.repository-url	GitHub repository URL (e.g. https://github.com/TwiN/example)	Required ""
alerting.github.token	Personal access token to use for authentication. Must have at least RW on issues and RO on metadata.	Required ""
alerting.github.default-alert	Default alert configuration. See Setting a default alert.	N/A

The GitHub alerting provider creates an issue prefixed with alert(gatus): and suffixed with the endpoint's display name for each alert. If send-on-resolved is set to true on the endpoint alert, the issue will be automatically closed when the alert is resolved.

alerting:
  github:
    repository-url: "https://github.com/TwiN/test"
    token: "github_pat_12345..."

endpoints:
  - name: example
    url: "https://twin.sh/health"
    interval: 5m
    conditions:
      - "[STATUS] == 200"
      - "[BODY].status == UP"
      - "[RESPONSE_TIME] < 75"
    alerts:
      - type: github
        failure-threshold: 2
        success-threshold: 3
        send-on-resolved: true
        description: "Everything's burning AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"

Configuring Google Chat alerts

Parameter	Description	Default
alerting.googlechat	Configuration for alerts of type googlechat	{}
alerting.googlechat.webhook-url	Google Chat Webhook URL	Required ""
alerting.googlechat.client	Client configuration. See Client configuration.	{}
alerting.googlechat.default-alert	Default alert configuration. See Setting a default alert.	N/A
alerting.googlechat.overrides	List of overrides that may be prioritized over the default configuration	[]
alerting.googlechat.overrides[].group	Endpoint group for which the configuration will be overridden by this configuration	""
alerting.googlechat.overrides[].webhook-url	Google Chat Webhook URL	""

alerting:
  googlechat:
    webhook-url: "https://chat.googleapis.com/v1/spaces/*******/messages?key=**********&token=********"

endpoints:
  - name: website
    url: "https://twin.sh/health"
    interval: 5m
    conditions:
      - "[STATUS] == 200"
      - "[BODY].status == UP"
      - "[RESPONSE_TIME] < 300"
    alerts:
      - type: googlechat
        description: "healthcheck failed"
        send-on-resolved: true

Configuring Matrix alerts

Parameter	Description	Default
alerting.matrix	Configuration for alerts of type matrix	{}
alerting.matrix.server-url	Homeserver URL	https://matrix-client.matrix.org
alerting.matrix.access-token	Bot user access token (see https://webapps.stackexchange.com/q/131056)	Required ""
alerting.matrix.internal-room-id	Internal room ID of room to send alerts to (can be found in Room Settings > Advanced)	Required ""
alerting.matrix.default-alert	Default alert configuration. See Setting a default alert	N/A

alerting:
  matrix:
    server-url: "https://matrix-client.matrix.org"
    access-token: "123456"
    internal-room-id: "!example:matrix.org"

endpoints:
  - name: website
    interval: 5m
    url: "https://twin.sh/health"
    conditions:
      - "[STATUS] == 200"
      - "[BODY].status == UP"
      - "[RESPONSE_TIME] < 300"
    alerts:
      - type: matrix
        send-on-resolved: true
        description: "healthcheck failed"

Configuring Mattermost alerts

Parameter	Description	Default
alerting.mattermost	Configuration for alerts of type mattermost	{}
alerting.mattermost.webhook-url	Mattermost Webhook URL	Required ""
alerting.mattermost.client	Client configuration. See Client configuration.	{}
alerting.mattermost.default-alert	Default alert configuration. See Setting a default alert.	N/A
alerting.mattermost.overrides	List of overrides that may be prioritized over the default configuration	[]
alerting.mattermost.overrides[].group	Endpoint group for which the configuration will be overridden by this configuration	""
alerting.mattermist.overrides[].webhook-url	Mattermost Webhook URL	""

alerting:
  mattermost:
    webhook-url: "http://**********/hooks/**********"
    client:
      insecure: true

endpoints:
  - name: website
    url: "https://twin.sh/health"
    interval: 5m
    conditions:
      - "[STATUS] == 200"
      - "[BODY].status == UP"
      - "[RESPONSE_TIME] < 300"
    alerts:
      - type: mattermost
        description: "healthcheck failed"
        send-on-resolved: true

Here's an example of what the notifications look like:

Configuring Messagebird alerts

Parameter	Description	Default
alerting.messagebird	Configuration for alerts of type messagebird	{}
alerting.messagebird.access-key	Messagebird access key	Required ""
alerting.messagebird.originator	The sender of the message	Required ""
alerting.messagebird.recipients	The recipients of the message	Required ""
alerting.messagebird.default-alert	Default alert configuration. See Setting a default alert	N/A

Example of sending SMS text message alert using Messagebird:

alerting:
  messagebird:
    access-key: "..."
    originator: "31619191918"
    recipients: "31619191919,31619191920"

endpoints:
  - name: website
    interval: 5m
    url: "https://twin.sh/health"
    conditions:
      - "[STATUS] == 200"
      - "[BODY].status == UP"
      - "[RESPONSE_TIME] < 300"
    alerts:
      - type: messagebird
        failure-threshold: 3
        send-on-resolved: true
        description: "healthcheck failed"

Configuring Ntfy alerts

Parameter	Description	Default
alerting.ntfy	Configuration for alerts of type ntfy	{}
alerting.ntfy.topic	Topic at which the alert will be sent	Required ""
alerting.ntfy.url	The URL of the target server	https://ntfy.sh
alerting.ntfy.priority	The priority of the alert	3
alerting.ntfy.default-alert	Default alert configuration. See Setting a default alert	N/A

ntfy is an amazing project that allows you to subscribe to desktop and mobile notifications, making it an awesome addition to Gatus.

Example:

alerting:
  ntfy:
    topic: "gatus-test-topic"
    priority: 2
    default-alert:
      failure-threshold: 3
      send-on-resolved: true

endpoints:
  - name: website
    interval: 5m
    url: "https://twin.sh/health"
    conditions:
      - "[STATUS] == 200"
      - "[BODY].status == UP"
      - "[RESPONSE_TIME] < 300"
    alerts:
      - type: ntfy

Configuring Opsgenie alerts

Parameter	Description	Default
alerting.opsgenie	Configuration for alerts of type opsgenie	{}
alerting.opsgenie.api-key	Opsgenie API Key	Required ""
alerting.opsgenie.priority	Priority level of the alert.	P1
alerting.opsgenie.source	Source field of the alert.	gatus
alerting.opsgenie.entity-prefix	Entity field prefix.	gatus-
alerting.opsgenie.alias-prefix	Alias field prefix.	gatus-healthcheck-
alerting.opsgenie.tags	Tags of alert.	[]
alerting.opsgenie.default-alert	Default alert configuration. See Setting a default alert	N/A

Opsgenie provider will automatically open and close alerts.

alerting:
  opsgenie:
    api-key: "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"

Configuring PagerDuty alerts

Parameter	Description	Default
alerting.pagerduty	Configuration for alerts of type pagerduty	{}
alerting.pagerduty.integration-key	PagerDuty Events API v2 integration key	""
alerting.pagerduty.overrides	List of overrides that may be prioritized over the default configuration	[]
alerting.pagerduty.overrides[].group	Endpoint group for which the configuration will be overridden by this configuration	""
alerting.pagerduty.overrides[].integration-key	PagerDuty Events API v2 integration key	""
alerting.pagerduty.default-alert	Default alert configuration. See Setting a default alert	N/A

It is highly recommended to set endpoints[].alerts[].send-on-resolved to true for alerts of type pagerduty, because unlike other alerts, the operation resulting from setting said parameter to true will not create another incident but mark the incident as resolved on PagerDuty instead.

Behavior:

• By default, alerting.pagerduty.integration-key is used as the integration key
• If the endpoint being evaluated belongs to a group (endpoints[].group) matching the value of alerting.pagerduty.overrides[].group, the provider will use that override's integration key instead of alerting.pagerduty.integration-key's

alerting:
  pagerduty:
    integration-key: "********************************"
    # You can also add group-specific integration keys, which will
    # override the integration key above for the specified groups
    overrides:
      - group: "core"
        integration-key: "********************************"

endpoints:
  - name: website
    url: "https://twin.sh/health"
    interval: 30s
    conditions:
      - "[STATUS] == 200"
      - "[BODY].status == UP"
      - "[RESPONSE_TIME] < 300"
    alerts:
      - type: pagerduty
        failure-threshold: 3
        success-threshold: 5
        send-on-resolved: true
        description: "healthcheck failed"

  - name: back-end
    group: core
    url: "https://example.org/"
    interval: 5m
    conditions:
      - "[STATUS] == 200"
      - "[CERTIFICATE_EXPIRATION] > 48h"
    alerts:
      - type: pagerduty
        failure-threshold: 3
        success-threshold: 5
        send-on-resolved: true
        description: "healthcheck failed"

Configuring Pushover alerts

Parameter	Description	Default
alerting.pushover	Configuration for alerts of type pushover	{}
alerting.pushover.application-token	Pushover Application token	""
alerting.pushover.user-key	User or group key	""
alerting.pushover.title	A fixed title for all messages sent via Pushover	Name of your App in Pushover
alerting.pushover.priority	Priority of all messages, ranging from -2 (very low) to 2 (Emergency)	0
alerting.pushover.default-alert	Default alert configuration. See Setting a default alert	N/A

alerting:
  pushover:
    application-token: "******************************"
    user-key: "******************************"

endpoints:
  - name: website
    url: "https://twin.sh/health"
    interval: 30s
    conditions:
      - "[STATUS] == 200"
      - "[BODY].status == UP"
      - "[RESPONSE_TIME] < 300"
    alerts:
      - type: pushover
        failure-threshold: 3
        success-threshold: 5
        send-on-resolved: true
        description: "healthcheck failed"

Configuring Slack alerts

Parameter	Description	Default
alerting.slack	Configuration for alerts of type slack	{}
alerting.slack.webhook-url	Slack Webhook URL	Required ""
alerting.slack.default-alert	Default alert configuration. See Setting a default alert	N/A
alerting.slack.overrides	List of overrides that may be prioritized over the default configuration	[]
alerting.slack.overrides[].group	Endpoint group for which the configuration will be overridden by this configuration	""
alerting.slack.overrides[].webhook-url	Slack Webhook URL	""

alerting:
  slack:
    webhook-url: "https://hooks.slack.com/services/**********/**********/**********"

endpoints:
  - name: website
    url: "https://twin.sh/health"
    interval: 30s
    conditions:
      - "[STATUS] == 200"
      - "[BODY].status == UP"
      - "[RESPONSE_TIME] < 300"
    alerts:
      - type: slack
        description: "healthcheck failed 3 times in a row"
        send-on-resolved: true
      - type: slack
        failure-threshold: 5
        description: "healthcheck failed 5 times in a row"
        send-on-resolved: true

Here's an example of what the notifications look like:

Configuring Teams alerts

Parameter	Description	Default
alerting.teams	Configuration for alerts of type teams	{}
alerting.teams.webhook-url	Teams Webhook URL	Required ""
alerting.teams.default-alert	Default alert configuration. See Setting a default alert	N/A
alerting.teams.overrides	List of overrides that may be prioritized over the default configuration	[]
alerting.teams.overrides[].group	Endpoint group for which the configuration will be overridden by this configuration	""
alerting.teams.overrides[].webhook-url	Teams Webhook URL	""

alerting:
  teams:
    webhook-url: "https://********.webhook.office.com/webhookb2/************"
    # You can also add group-specific to keys, which will
    # override the to key above for the specified groups
    overrides:
      - group: "core"
        webhook-url: "https://********.webhook.office.com/webhookb3/************"

endpoints:
  - name: website
    url: "https://twin.sh/health"
    interval: 30s
    conditions:
      - "[STATUS] == 200"
      - "[BODY].status == UP"
      - "[RESPONSE_TIME] < 300"
    alerts:
      - type: teams
        description: "healthcheck failed"
        send-on-resolved: true

  - name: back-end
    group: core
    url: "https://example.org/"
    interval: 5m
    conditions:
      - "[STATUS] == 200"
      - "[CERTIFICATE_EXPIRATION] > 48h"
    alerts:
      - type: teams
        description: "healthcheck failed"
        send-on-resolved: true

Here's an example of what the notifications look like:

Configuring Telegram alerts

Parameter	Description	Default
alerting.telegram	Configuration for alerts of type telegram	{}
alerting.telegram.token	Telegram Bot Token	Required ""
alerting.telegram.id	Telegram User ID	Required ""
alerting.telegram.api-url	Telegram API URL	https://api.telegram.org
alerting.telegram.client	Client configuration. See Client configuration.	{}
alerting.telegram.default-alert	Default alert configuration. See Setting a default alert	N/A

alerting:
  telegram:
    token: "123456:ABC-DEF1234ghIkl-zyx57W2v1u123ew11"
    id: "0123456789"

endpoints:
  - name: website
    url: "https://twin.sh/health"
    interval: 30s
    conditions:
      - "[STATUS] == 200"
      - "[BODY].status == UP"
    alerts:
      - type: telegram
        send-on-resolved: true

Here's an example of what the notifications look like:

Configuring Twilio alerts

Parameter	Description	Default
alerting.twilio	Settings for alerts of type twilio	{}
alerting.twilio.sid	Twilio account SID	Required ""
alerting.twilio.token	Twilio auth token	Required ""
alerting.twilio.from	Number to send Twilio alerts from	Required ""
alerting.twilio.to	Number to send twilio alerts to	Required ""
alerting.twilio.default-alert	Default alert configuration. See Setting a default alert	N/A

alerting:
  twilio:
    sid: "..."
    token: "..."
    from: "+1-234-567-8901"
    to: "+1-234-567-8901"

endpoints:
  - name: website
    interval: 30s
    url: "https://twin.sh/health"
    conditions:
      - "[STATUS] == 200"
      - "[BODY].status == UP"
      - "[RESPONSE_TIME] < 300"
    alerts:
      - type: twilio
        failure-threshold: 5
        send-on-resolved: true
        description: "healthcheck failed"

Configuring custom alerts

Parameter	Description	Default
alerting.custom	Configuration for custom actions on failure or alerts	{}
alerting.custom.url	Custom alerting request url	Required ""
alerting.custom.method	Request method	GET
alerting.custom.body	Custom alerting request body.	""
alerting.custom.headers	Custom alerting request headers	{}
alerting.custom.client	Client configuration. See Client configuration.	{}
alerting.custom.default-alert	Default alert configuration. See Setting a default alert	N/A

While they're called alerts, you can use this feature to call anything.

For instance, you could automate rollbacks by having an application that keeps tracks of new deployments, and by leveraging Gatus, you could have Gatus call that application endpoint when an endpoint starts failing. Your application would then check if the endpoint that started failing was part of the recently deployed application, and if it was, then automatically roll it back.

Furthermore, you may use the following placeholders in the body (alerting.custom.body) and in the url (alerting.custom.url):

• [ALERT_DESCRIPTION] (resolved from endpoints[].alerts[].description)
• [ENDPOINT_NAME] (resolved from endpoints[].name)
• [ENDPOINT_GROUP] (resolved from endpoints[].group)
• [ENDPOINT_URL] (resolved from endpoints[].url)

If you have an alert using the custom provider with send-on-resolved set to true, you can use the [ALERT_TRIGGERED_OR_RESOLVED] placeholder to differentiate the notifications. The aforementioned placeholder will be replaced by TRIGGERED or RESOLVED accordingly, though it can be modified (details at the end of this section).

For all intents and purposes, we'll configure the custom alert with a Slack webhook, but you can call anything you want.

alerting:
  custom:
    url: "https://hooks.slack.com/services/**********/**********/**********"
    method: "POST"
    body: |
      {
        "text": "[ALERT_TRIGGERED_OR_RESOLVED]: [ENDPOINT_GROUP] - [ENDPOINT_NAME] - [ALERT_DESCRIPTION]"
      }      
endpoints:
  - name: website
    url: "https://twin.sh/health"
    interval: 30s
    conditions:
      - "[STATUS] == 200"
      - "[BODY].status == UP"
      - "[RESPONSE_TIME] < 300"
    alerts:
      - type: custom
        failure-threshold: 10
        success-threshold: 3
        send-on-resolved: true
        description: "health check failed"

Note that you can customize the resolved values for the [ALERT_TRIGGERED_OR_RESOLVED] placeholder like so:

alerting:
  custom:
    placeholders:
      ALERT_TRIGGERED_OR_RESOLVED:
        TRIGGERED: "partial_outage"
        RESOLVED: "operational"

As a result, the [ALERT_TRIGGERED_OR_RESOLVED] in the body of first example of this section would be replaced by partial_outage when an alert is triggered and operational when an alert is resolved.

Setting a default alert

Parameter	Description	Default
alerting.*.default-alert.enabled	Whether to enable the alert	N/A
alerting.*.default-alert.failure-threshold	Number of failures in a row needed before triggering the alert	N/A
alerting.*.default-alert.success-threshold	Number of successes in a row before an ongoing incident is marked as resolved	N/A
alerting.*.default-alert.send-on-resolved	Whether to send a notification once a triggered alert is marked as resolved	N/A
alerting.*.default-alert.description	Description of the alert. Will be included in the alert sent	N/A

⚠ You must still specify the type of the alert in the endpoint configuration even if you set the default alert of a provider.

While you can specify the alert configuration directly in the endpoint definition, it's tedious and may lead to a very long configuration file.

To avoid such problem, you can use the default-alert parameter present in each provider configuration:

alerting:
  slack:
    webhook-url: "https://hooks.slack.com/services/**********/**********/**********"
    default-alert:
      description: "health check failed"
      send-on-resolved: true
      failure-threshold: 5
      success-threshold: 5

As a result, your Gatus configuration looks a lot tidier:

endpoints:
  - name: example
    url: "https://example.org"
    conditions:
      - "[STATUS] == 200"
    alerts:
      - type: slack

  - name: other-example
    url: "https://example.com"
    conditions:
      - "[STATUS] == 200"
    alerts:
      - type: slack

It also allows you to do things like this:

endpoints:
  - name: example
    url: "https://example.org"
    conditions:
      - "[STATUS] == 200"
    alerts:
      - type: slack
        failure-threshold: 5
      - type: slack
        failure-threshold: 10
      - type: slack
        failure-threshold: 15

Of course, you can also mix alert types:

alerting:
  slack:
    webhook-url: "https://hooks.slack.com/services/**********/**********/**********"
    default-alert:
      failure-threshold: 3
  pagerduty:
    integration-key: "********************************"
    default-alert:
      failure-threshold: 5

endpoints:
  - name: endpoint-1
    url: "https://example.org"
    conditions:
      - "[STATUS] == 200"
    alerts:
      - type: slack
      - type: pagerduty

  - name: endpoint-2
    url: "https://example.org"
    conditions:
      - "[STATUS] == 200"
    alerts:
      - type: slack
      - type: pagerduty

Maintenance

If you have maintenance windows, you may not want to be annoyed by alerts. To do that, you'll have to use the maintenance configuration:

Parameter	Description	Default
maintenance.enabled	Whether the maintenance period is enabled	true
maintenance.start	Time at which the maintenance window starts in hh:mm format (e.g. 23:00)	Required ""
maintenance.duration	Duration of the maintenance window (e.g. 1h, 30m)	Required ""
maintenance.every	Days on which the maintenance period applies (e.g. [Monday, Thursday]). If left empty, the maintenance window applies every day	[]

📝 The maintenance configuration uses UTC

Here's an example:

maintenance:
  start: 23:00
  duration: 1h
  every: [Monday, Thursday]

Note that you can also specify each day on separate lines:

maintenance:
  start: 23:00
  duration: 1h
  every:
    - Monday
    - Thursday

Security

Parameter	Description	Default
security	Security configuration	{}
security.basic	HTTP Basic configuration	{}
security.oidc	OpenID Connect configuration	{}

Basic

Parameter	Description	Default
security.basic	HTTP Basic configuration	{}
security.basic.username	Username for Basic authentication.	Required ""
security.basic.password-bcrypt-base64	Password hashed with Bcrypt and then encoded with base64 for Basic authentication.	Required ""

The example below will require that you authenticate with the username john.doe and the password hunter2:

security:
  basic:
    username: "john.doe"
    password-bcrypt-base64: "JDJhJDEwJHRiMnRFakxWazZLdXBzRERQazB1TE8vckRLY05Yb1hSdnoxWU0yQ1FaYXZRSW1McmladDYu"

⚠ Make sure to carefully select to cost of the bcrypt hash. The higher the cost, the longer it takes to compute the hash, and basic auth verifies the password against the hash on every request. As of 2023-01-06, I suggest a cost of 9.

OIDC

Parameter	Description	Default
security.oidc	OpenID Connect configuration	{}
security.oidc.issuer-url	Issuer URL	Required ""
security.oidc.redirect-url	Redirect URL. Must end with /authorization-code/callback	Required ""
security.oidc.client-id	Client id	Required ""
security.oidc.client-secret	Client secret	Required ""
security.oidc.scopes	Scopes to request. The only scope you need is openid.	Required []
security.oidc.allowed-subjects	List of subjects to allow. If empty, all subjects are allowed.	[]

security:
  oidc:
    issuer-url: "https://example.okta.com"
    redirect-url: "https://status.example.com/authorization-code/callback"
    client-id: "123456789"
    client-secret: "abcdefghijk"
    scopes: ["openid"]
    # You may optionally specify a list of allowed subjects. If this is not specified, all subjects will be allowed.
    #allowed-subjects: ["johndoe@example.com"]

Confused? Read Securing Gatus with OIDC using Auth0.

Metrics

To enable metrics, you must set metrics to true. Doing so will expose Prometheus-friendly metrics at the /metrics endpoint on the same port your application is configured to run on (web.port).

Metric name	Type	Description	Labels	Relevant endpoint types
gatus_results_total	counter	Number of results per endpoint	key, group, name, type, success	All
gatus_results_code_total	counter	Total number of results by code	key, group, name, type, code	DNS, HTTP
gatus_results_connected_total	counter	Total number of results in which a connection was successfully established	key, group, name, type	All
gatus_results_duration_seconds	gauge	Duration of the request in seconds	key, group, name, type	All
gatus_results_certificate_expiration_seconds	gauge	Number of seconds until the certificate expires	key, group, name, type	HTTP, STARTTLS

See examples/docker-compose-grafana-prometheus for further documentation as well as an example.

Remote instances (EXPERIMENTAL)

This feature allows you to retrieve endpoint statuses from a remote Gatus instance.

There are two main use cases for this:

• You have multiple Gatus instances running on different machines, and you wish to visually expose the statuses through a single dashboard
• You have one or more Gatus instances that are not publicly accessible (e.g. behind a firewall), and you wish to retrieve

This is an experimental feature. It may be removed or updated in a breaking manner at any time. Furthermore, there are known issues with this feature. If you'd like to provide some feedback, please write a comment in #64. Use at your own risk.

Parameter	Description	Default
remote	Remote configuration	{}
remote.instances	List of remote instances	Required []
remote.instances.endpoint-prefix	String to prefix all endpoint names with	""
remote.instances.url	URL from which to retrieve endpoint statuses	Required ""

remote:
  instances:
    - endpoint-prefix: "status.example.org-"
      url: "https://status.example.org/api/v1/endpoints/statuses"

Deployment

Many examples can be found in the .examples folder, but this section will focus on the most popular ways of deploying Gatus.

Docker

To run Gatus locally with Docker:

docker run -p 8080:8080 --name gatus twinproduction/gatus

Other than using one of the examples provided in the .examples folder, you can also try it out locally by creating a configuration file, we'll call it config.yaml for this example, and running the following command:

docker run -p 8080:8080 --mount type=bind,source="$(pwd)"/config.yaml,target=/config/config.yaml --name gatus twinproduction/gatus

If you're on Windows, replace "$(pwd)" by the absolute path to your current directory, e.g.:

docker run -p 8080:8080 --mount type=bind,source=C:/Users/Chris/Desktop/config.yaml,target=/config/config.yaml --name gatus twinproduction/gatus

To build the image locally:

docker build . -t twinproduction/gatus

Helm Chart

Helm must be installed to use the chart. Please refer to Helm's documentation to get started.

Once Helm is set up properly, add the repository as follows:

helm repo add gatus https://avakarev.github.io/gatus-chart

To get more details, please check chart's configuration and helmfile example

Terraform

Gatus can be deployed on Terraform by using the following module: terraform-kubernetes-gatus.

Running the tests

go test ./... -mod vendor

Using in Production

See the Deployment section.

FAQ

Sending a GraphQL request

By setting endpoints[].graphql to true, the body will automatically be wrapped by the standard GraphQL query parameter.

For instance, the following configuration:

endpoints:
  - name: filter-users-by-gender
    url: http://localhost:8080/playground
    method: POST
    graphql: true
    body: |
      {
        users(gender: "female") {
          id
          name
          gender
          avatar
        }
      }      
    conditions:
      - "[STATUS] == 200"
      - "[BODY].data.users[0].gender == female"

will send a POST request to http://localhost:8080/playground with the following body:

{"query":"      {\n        users(gender: \"female\") {\n          id\n          name\n          gender\n          avatar\n        }\n      }"}

Recommended interval

📝 This does not apply if disable-monitoring-lock is set to true, as the monitoring lock is what tells Gatus to only evaluate one endpoint at a time.

To ensure that Gatus provides reliable and accurate results (i.e. response time), Gatus only evaluates one endpoint at a time In other words, even if you have multiple endpoints with the same interval, they will not execute at the same time.

You can test this yourself by running Gatus with several endpoints configured with a very short, unrealistic interval, such as 1ms. You'll notice that the response time does not fluctuate - that is because while endpoints are evaluated on different goroutines, there's a global lock that prevents multiple endpoints from running at the same time.

Unfortunately, there is a drawback. If you have a lot of endpoints, including some that are very slow or prone to timing out (the default timeout is 10s), then it means that for the entire duration of the request, no other endpoint can be evaluated.

The interval does not include the duration of the request itself, which means that if an endpoint has an interval of 30s and the request takes 2s to complete, the timestamp between two evaluations will be 32s, not 30s.

While this does not prevent Gatus' from performing health checks on all other endpoints, it may cause Gatus to be unable to respect the configured interval, for instance:

• Endpoint A has an interval of 5s, and times out after 10s to complete
• Endpoint B has an interval of 5s, and takes 1ms to complete
• Endpoint B will be unable to run every 5s, because endpoint A's health evaluation takes longer than its interval

To sum it up, while Gatus can handle any interval you throw at it, you're better off having slow requests with higher interval.

As a rule of thumb, I personally set the interval for more complex health checks to 5m (5 minutes) and simple health checks used for alerting (PagerDuty/Twilio) to 30s.

Default timeouts

Endpoint type	Timeout
HTTP	10s
TCP	10s
ICMP	10s

To modify the timeout, see Client configuration.

Monitoring a TCP endpoint

By prefixing endpoints[].url with tcp:\\, you can monitor TCP endpoints at a very basic level:

endpoints:
  - name: redis
    url: "tcp://127.0.0.1:6379"
    interval: 30s
    conditions:
      - "[CONNECTED] == true"

Placeholders [STATUS] and [BODY] as well as the fields endpoints[].body, endpoints[].headers, endpoints[].method and endpoints[].graphql are not supported for TCP endpoints.

This works for applications such as databases (Postgres, MySQL, etc.) and caches (Redis, Memcached, etc.).

📝 [CONNECTED] == true does not guarantee that the endpoint itself is healthy - it only guarantees that there's something at the given address listening to the given port, and that a connection to that address was successfully established.

Monitoring a UDP endpoint

By prefixing endpoints[].url with udp:\\, you can monitor UDP endpoints at a very basic level:

endpoints:
  - name: example
    url: "udp://example.org:80"
    conditions:
      - "[CONNECTED] == true"

Placeholders [STATUS] and [BODY] as well as the fields endpoints[].body, endpoints[].headers, endpoints[].method and endpoints[].graphql are not supported for UDP endpoints.

This works for UDP based application.

Monitoring a SCTP endpoint

By prefixing endpoints[].url with sctp:\\, you can monitor Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) endpoints at a very basic level:

endpoints:
  - name: example
    url: "sctp://127.0.0.1:38412"
    conditions:
      - "[CONNECTED] == true"

Placeholders [STATUS] and [BODY] as well as the fields endpoints[].body, endpoints[].headers, endpoints[].method and endpoints[].graphql are not supported for SCTP endpoints.

This works for SCTP based application.

Monitoring an endpoint using ICMP

By prefixing endpoints[].url with icmp:\\, you can monitor endpoints at a very basic level using ICMP, or more commonly known as "ping" or "echo":

endpoints:
  - name: ping-example
    url: "icmp://example.com"
    conditions:
      - "[CONNECTED] == true"

Only the placeholders [CONNECTED], [IP] and [RESPONSE_TIME] are supported for endpoints of type ICMP. You can specify a domain prefixed by icmp://, or an IP address prefixed by icmp://.

Monitoring an endpoint using DNS queries

Defining a dns configuration in an endpoint will automatically mark said endpoint as an endpoint of type DNS:

endpoints:
  - name: example-dns-query
    url: "8.8.8.8" # Address of the DNS server to use
    dns:
      query-name: "example.com"
      query-type: "A"
    conditions:
      - "[BODY] == 93.184.216.34"
      - "[DNS_RCODE] == NOERROR"

There are two placeholders that can be used in the conditions for endpoints of type DNS:

• The placeholder [BODY] resolves to the output of the query. For instance, a query of type A would return an IPv4.
• The placeholder [DNS_RCODE] resolves to the name associated to the response code returned by the query, such as NOERROR, FORMERR, SERVFAIL, NXDOMAIN, etc.

Monitoring an endpoint using STARTTLS

If you have an email server that you want to ensure there are no problems with, monitoring it through STARTTLS will serve as a good initial indicator:

endpoints:
  - name: starttls-smtp-example
    url: "starttls://smtp.gmail.com:587"
    interval: 30m
    client:
      timeout: 5s
    conditions:
      - "[CONNECTED] == true"
      - "[CERTIFICATE_EXPIRATION] > 48h"

Monitoring an endpoint using TLS

Monitoring endpoints using SSL/TLS encryption, such as LDAP over TLS, can help detect certificate expiration:

endpoints:
  - name: tls-ldaps-example
    url: "tls://ldap.example.com:636"
    interval: 30m
    client:
      timeout: 5s
    conditions:
      - "[CONNECTED] == true"
      - "[CERTIFICATE_EXPIRATION] > 48h"

Monitoring domain expiration

You can monitor the expiration of a domain with all endpoint types except for DNS by using the [DOMAIN_EXPIRATION] placeholder:

endpoints:
  - name: check-domain-and-certificate-expiration
    url: "https://example.org"
    interval: 1h
    conditions:
      - "[DOMAIN_EXPIRATION] > 720h"
      - "[CERTIFICATE_EXPIRATION] > 240h"

⚠ The usage of the [DOMAIN_EXPIRATION] placeholder requires Gatus to send a request to the official IANA WHOIS service through a library and in some cases, a secondary request to a TLD-specific WHOIS server (e.g. whois.nic.sh). To prevent the WHOIS service from throttling your IP address if you send too many requests, Gatus will prevent you from using the [DOMAIN_EXPIRATION] placeholder on an endpoint with an interval of less than 5m.

disable-monitoring-lock

Setting disable-monitoring-lock to true means that multiple endpoints 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 endpoints at the same time, therefore, the default value for this parameter is false.

There are three main reasons why you might want to disable the monitoring lock:

• You're using Gatus for load testing (each endpoint are periodically evaluated on a different goroutine, so technically, if you create 100 endpoints with a 1 seconds interval, Gatus will send 100 requests per second)
• You have a lot of endpoints to monitor
• You want to test multiple endpoints at very short intervals (< 5s)

Reloading configuration on the fly

For the sake of convenience, Gatus automatically reloads the configuration on the fly if the loaded configuration file is updated while Gatus is running.

By default, the application will exit if the updating configuration is invalid, but you can configure Gatus to continue running if the configuration file is updated with an invalid configuration by setting skip-invalid-config-update to true.

Keep in mind that it is in your best interest to ensure the validity of the configuration file after each update you apply to the configuration file while Gatus is running by looking at the log and making sure that you do not see the following message:

The configuration file was updated, but it is not valid. The old configuration will continue being used.

Failure to do so may result in Gatus being unable to start if the application is restarted for whatever reason.

I recommend not setting skip-invalid-config-update to true to avoid a situation like this, but the choice is yours to make.

If you are not using a file storage, updating the configuration while Gatus is running is effectively the same as restarting the application.

📝 Updates may not be detected if the config file is bound instead of the config folder. See #151.

Endpoint groups

Endpoint groups are used for grouping multiple endpoints together on the dashboard.

endpoints:
  - name: frontend
    group: core
    url: "https://example.org/"
    interval: 5m
    conditions:
      - "[STATUS] == 200"

  - name: backend
    group: core
    url: "https://example.org/"
    interval: 5m
    conditions:
      - "[STATUS] == 200"

  - name: monitoring
    group: internal
    url: "https://example.org/"
    interval: 5m
    conditions:
      - "[STATUS] == 200"

  - name: nas
    group: internal
    url: "https://example.org/"
    interval: 5m
    conditions:
      - "[STATUS] == 200"

  - name: random endpoint that is not part of a group
    url: "https://example.org/"
    interval: 5m
    conditions:
      - "[STATUS] == 200"

The configuration above will result in a dashboard that looks like this:

Exposing Gatus on a custom port

By default, Gatus is exposed on port 8080, but you may specify a different port by setting the web.port parameter:

web:
  port: 8081

If you're using a PaaS like Heroku that doesn't let you set a custom port and exposes it through an environment variable instead, you can use that environment variable directly in the configuration file:

web:
  port: ${PORT}

Keeping your configuration small

While not specific to Gatus, you can leverage YAML anchors to create a default configuration. If you have a large configuration file, this should help you keep things clean.

Example

default-endpoint: &defaults
  group: core
  interval: 5m
  client:
    insecure: true
    timeout: 30s
  conditions:
    - "[STATUS] == 200"

endpoints:
  - name: anchor-example-1
    <<: *defaults               # This will merge the configuration under &defaults with this endpoint
    url: "https://example.org"

  - name: anchor-example-2
    <<: *defaults 
    group: example              # This will override the group defined in &defaults
    url: "https://example.com"

  - name: anchor-example-3
    <<: *defaults
    url: "https://twin.sh/health"
    conditions:                # This will override the conditions defined in &defaults
      - "[STATUS] == 200"
      - "[BODY].status == UP"

Badges

Uptime

Gatus can automatically generate an SVG badge for one of your monitored endpoints. This allows you to put badges in your individual applications' README or even create your own status page if you desire.

The path to generate a badge is the following:

/api/v1/endpoints/{key}/uptimes/{duration}/badge.svg

Where:

• {duration} is 7d, 24h or 1h
• {key} has the pattern <GROUP_NAME>_<ENDPOINT_NAME> in which both variables have , /, _, , and . replaced by -.

For instance, if you want the uptime during the last 24 hours from the endpoint frontend in the group core, the URL would look like this:

https://example.com/api/v1/endpoints/core_frontend/uptimes/7d/badge.svg

If you want to display an endpoint that is not part of a group, you must leave the group value empty:

https://example.com/api/v1/endpoints/_frontend/uptimes/7d/badge.svg

Example:

![Uptime 24h](https://status.twin.sh/api/v1/endpoints/core_blog-external/uptimes/24h/badge.svg)

If you'd like to see a visual example of each badge available, you can simply navigate to the endpoint's detail page.

Health

The path to generate a badge is the following:

/api/v1/endpoints/{key}/health/badge.svg

Where:

• {key} has the pattern <GROUP_NAME>_<ENDPOINT_NAME> in which both variables have , /, _, , and . replaced by -.

For instance, if you want the current status of the endpoint frontend in the group core, the URL would look like this:

https://example.com/api/v1/endpoints/core_frontend/health/badge.svg

Response time

The endpoint to generate a badge is the following:

/api/v1/endpoints/{key}/response-times/{duration}/badge.svg

Where:

• {duration} is 7d, 24h or 1h
• {key} has the pattern <GROUP_NAME>_<ENDPOINT_NAME> in which both variables have , /, _, , and . replaced by -.

How to change the color thresholds of the response time badge

To change the response time badges' threshold, a corresponding configuration can be added to an endpoint.
The values in the array correspond to the levels [Awesome, Great, Good, Passable, Bad]
All five values must be given in milliseconds (ms).

endpoints:
- name: nas
  group: internal
  url: "https://example.org/"
  interval: 5m
  conditions:
    - "[STATUS] == 200"
  ui:
    badge:
      response-time:
        thresholds: [550, 850, 1350, 1650, 1750]

API

Gatus provides a simple read-only API that can be queried in order to programmatically determine endpoint status and history.

All endpoints are available via a GET request to the following endpoint:

/api/v1/endpoints/statuses

Example: https://status.twin.sh/api/v1/endpoints/statuses

Specific endpoints can also be queried by using the following pattern:

/api/v1/endpoints/{group}_{endpoint}/statuses

Example: https://status.twin.sh/api/v1/endpoints/core_blog-home/statuses

Gzip compression will be used if the Accept-Encoding HTTP header contains gzip.

The API will return a JSON payload with the Content-Type response header set to application/json. No such header is required to query the API.

High level design overview

Sponsors

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