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Jun 24

Abusing HAProxy: Stupid Simple Easy Dashboards

I wanted a simple way to have a dashboard to show if hosts and services are alive & didn’t want to write much code and/or run up a nagios instance (or anything like that). All I care is whether it’s green or red.

I’d already been setting up HAProxy for a proxy forwarder, so I got the idea to turn on the stats page and just have a set of backends which HAProxy would check.

Sample config follows:

Make the file, then if you don’t even feel like installing haproxy, you could do a:

Point your browser to http://localhost:2001/ and enter user/pass as admin and you’re good to go. It even refreshes every 30 seconds.

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