A script to ping the heroku app dyno and prevent it from sleeping

04 Feb 2020

herokuapp_pinger

A script to ping the heroku app dyno and prevent it from sleeping, with the notification for linux distros for success and failure

Repo

https://github.com/sharadcodes/herokuapp_pinger

SETUP

Requirements

• crontab
• notify-send
• curl

STEPS

First of all clone the repository or download it

Extract the archive file and rename the folder from

herokuapp_pinger-master

to

herokuapp_pinger

Now follow the steps

1. Place the repository folder inside the home/${USER}/ directory.

   It will look like:

   /home/${USER}/herokuapp_pinger/
   

2. Open the script pinger.sh inside herokuapp_pinger folder with any text editor and replace the DUMMY_USER_NAME on the line 46 with your account name.

3. Go inside the herokuapp_pinger folder and run

   chmod +x pinger.sh && mkdir logs && mkdir csv_logs
   

   These two folders will be used to store logs. csv_logs folder will store logs in the form of CSV files and the logs folder will store them with .log extension

4. Add the hosts to the hosts_list.txt file inside herokuapp_pinger/script_data folder.

   Every host url should be on a new line

   NOTE: There should be a new empty line after the last host otherwise last entry in the file will not be read

   ALSO ANY NUMBER OF HOSTS CAN BE SPECIFIED IN THE hosts_list.txt file

5. Setup crontab like this:

   * * * * * /home/your_user_name/herokuapp_pinger/pinger.sh
   

   You should change the crontab schedule according to your needs as

   * * * * *
   

   will run the script every minute

Your logs will be inside

/home/${USER}/herokuapp_pinger/logs/

and

/home/${USER}/herokuapp_pinger/csv_logs/

SETUP FINISHED, ENJOY !