GCES Systems Status Page

Keep track of our internal services to make sure it is smooth and spiffy ✨

Currently keeping track of:

• Homepage at https://gcesconcordia.com
• UpDash at https://updash.gcesconcordia.com

How does it work?

By sending a HTTP GET request to the sites' /healthcheck endpoint. When the API endpoint responds with a OK 200 status, we know it is ballin'. Otherwise, raise the alarm bells 🔔.

Note that this is not configured to be a polling feature since that could potentially overload the server and degrade performance for users.

Deployment

The proof-of-concept (PoC) is currently being hosted on Vercel, which is not ideal 🙅. It needs to be lifted and shifted to a dedicated server (Server 1) and potentially replicated on another (Server 2) to ensure the status page is operational on the event of Vercel infrastructure or Server 1 or Server 2 fails.

Manually

To manually deploy on a Linux baremetal server (with ssh and root access):

• Log in with ssh to the server
• Make sure the following dependencies are installed
  • git
  • nodejs >= 19.0.0
  • npm
  • python >= 3.7
  • build-essential (for apt-based Linux distributions)
  • ufw
  • nginx
• Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/gcesconcordia/status-page
• Install

WIP...