DEPRECATED

This code is unmaintained anymore. Blackbox exporter is the right way to monitor your http services.

BeePing v0.5.0

previously named pingmeback

It forages the servers and brings the metrics back to the hive

BeePing is a distant http check as a Service. Call the very simple API, BeePing will measure website for you.

🇺🇸💚 200 OK - 119 ms - (http_status_code, http_request_time)

📖 DNS - 9 ms - (dns_lookup)

🔄 TCP - 6 ms - (tcp_connection)

🔒 TLS - 52 ms - (tls_handshake)

🖥️ Server Processing - 43 ms - (server_processing)

🔽 Transfer - 6 ms - (content_transfer)

Other attributes :

• cert_expiry_days_left
• http_body_pattern

Features:

• Very simple JSON API
• Lot of metrics
• Timeline of HTTP request
• SSL Expiration check
• Server SSL/TLS version and Ciphers
• Pattern check (search for text in response)
• GeoIP resolution
• Single binary

Big hugs to :

• Dave Cheney for his inspirational work on httpstat
• Taichi Nakashima for his work on httpstat lib go-httpstat

Install

Download latest version on releases page

• chmod +x beeping
• sudo mv beeping /usr/bin
• beeping

$ ./beeping -h
Usage of ./beeping:
  -geodatfile string
        geoIP database path (default "/opt/GeoIP/GeoLite2-City.mmdb")
  -instance string
        beeping instance name (default hostname)
  -listen string
        The host to bind the server to (default "127.0.0.1")
  -port string
        The port to bind the server to (default "8080")
  -tlsmode
        Activate SSL/TLS versions and Cipher support checks (slow)
  -validatetarget
          Perform some security checks on the target provided (default true)

Notes

• If no GeoIP database is found, BeePing omit geo response silently
• TLSMode returns more infos on SSL object. It tries the more ciphers and TLS version Golang can test but the checks can be way slower.

Optional

You can plug MaxMind GeoIP file to know on which country the pings goes.

See: http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/geolite2/

Build

Beeping is known to only compile with Golang 1.8.x + (see #14 )

go get -u github.com/golang/dep
go get -u github.com/yanc0/beeping
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/yanc0/beeping
dep ensure
go build

API Usage

$ curl -XPOST http://localhost:8080/check -d '{"url": "https://google.fr", "pattern": "find me", "header": "Server:GitHub.com", "insecure": false, "timeout": 20}'
{
  "http_status": "200 OK",
  "http_status_code": 200,
  "http_body_pattern": true,
  "http_header": true,
  "http_request_time": 716,
  "instance_name": "X250",
  "dns_lookup": 14,
  "tcp_connection": 101,
  "tls_handshake": 228,
  "server_processing": 168,
  "content_transfer": 203,
  "timeline": {
    "name_lookup": 14,
    "connect": 115,
    "pretransfer": 344,
    "starttransfer": 512
  },
  "geo": {
    "country": "US",
    "ip": "192.30.253.112"
  },
  "ssl": {
    "ciphers": [
      "TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA",
      "TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA",
      "TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305",
      "TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305",
      "TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA",
      "TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256",
      "TLS_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA",
      "TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA",
      "TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256",
      "TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384",
      "TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA",
      "TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA"
    ],
    "protocol_versions": [
      "TLS12",
      "TLS10",
      "TLS11"
    ],
    "cert_expiry_date": "2018-05-17T12:00:00Z",
    "cert_expiry_days_left": 374,
    "cert_signature": "SHA256-RSA"
  }
}

• If pattern is not filled http_body_pattern is always true
• If header is not filled http_header is always true
• ssl is omitted when http://. The same for the tls_handshake field
• geo is omitted if geoip is not set

Beeping Clients

• beeping-client (python) : you can use the beeping-client made by Quentin De Soete, in Python.

Error Handling

beeping returns HTTP 500 when check fail. The body contains the reason of the failure.

{
  "message": "Get https://mysite.com/health: net/http: request canceled (Client Timeout exceeded while awaiting headers)"
}

HTTP Basic Auth

Just add the 'auth' option in your JSON.

$ curl -XPOST http://localhost:8080/check -d '{"url":"http://127.0.0.1:3000","auth":"john:secret"}'

Changelog

0.6.0 - UNRELEASED

• Validate target - CWE-918 #16 Aaron Hnatiw
• Include remote address in request header #19 Aaron Hnatiw
• Basic HTTP auth #23 Brice Colucci
• Go native HTTP server instead of Gin #24 Brice Colucci

0.5.0 - 2017-05-07

• Add TLS Mode, now show server supported ciphers and SSL/TLS versions
• Add listen / Port options (breaking change)
• Modify JSON response structure (breaking change)
• Add proper logging
• Set proper User-Agent
• Add header check

0.4.0 - 2017-04-24

• Pingmeback is now BeePing
• Add BeePing logo
• Adapt documentation
• Change Travis build info

0.3.0 - 2017-04-21

• pingmeback now returns geoip informations
• Add Instance name in results
• Add vendoring system

To Do

• Add HTTP Auth
• Add tests
• More metrics
• Packaging

Contributing

Feel free to make a pull request.

Contributors

• Aaron Hnatiw
• Aimof
• Brice Colucci
• Yann Coleu

Licence

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2016 Yann Coleu

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