Pinger - Node uptime monitor

Event emitter that notify you if your sites are down.
It emit 3 events - status, siteDown and siteUp

Install

npm install pinger

Use

var pinger = require('pinger');

var websites = [
  {
    url: 'foo.com',
    timeout: 10    // minutes
  },
  {
    url: 'bar.com',
    timeout: 15
  }
];

pinger.on('status', function(data) {
  console.log('status event:', data);
});

pinger.on('siteUp', function(data) {
  console.log('siteUp event:', data);
});

pinger.on('siteDown', function(data) {
  console.log('siteDown event:', data);
});

pinger.start(websites);                              // pass hash of websites

There are 2 more way to use it:

1. pinger.start();                                   // default to websites.js file in the local directory
2. pinger.start({pathToWebsites: "./websites.js"});  // location of websites.js file

siteDown and siteUp events are sending the following data:

{ 
  website: 'foo.com',
  time: '2013-02-19 03:24:05',
  status: 'DOWN',
  message: undefined 
}