Vigil: Open Source Status Page in Rust

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Vigil is an open-source Status Page built in Rust that you can host on your infrastructure. You can use it to monitor all your servers and apps, and get a Web Status Page visible to your users (ie. on a domain of your choice, eg. status.example.com).

It is useful in microservices contexts to monitor both apps and backends. If a node goes down in your infrastructure, you receive a status change notification in a Slack channel (eg. #infrastructure). Your phone / watch / etc. will ping you when something goes wrong, or when the infrastructure auto-recovered from downtime).

Vigil is usually used in a SaaS context to monitor tens of services, but it can also prove useful to monitor services on eg. a personal server, or monitor a small infrastructure made of APIs.

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This is an open-source version of https://status.crisp.chat/ which we've been running over the last 2 years. It saved our service from small to large downtimes hundreds of time. This is why we're now releasing it as Open Source, as most SaaS starting up won't need to use a complex, expensive commercial solution while a self-hosted app would do.

This is part of our effort to give back to the OSS community. Hope this can help :)

We're open to feedbacks & feature requests.

Again a banana attached to a gorilla and a whole jungle. Why can't we have a dashboard that just displays whatever is in its configured data store, and a data store filled with whatever is collected about the environment? It's always another dashboard-with-datastore-and-monitoring-agent in one complete, impossible to separate package, which is effectively a crippled attempt at building a monitoring system? (I wrote all three separate things, dashboard, data store, and monitoring agent, and I am using them in production, so I know it's a doable plan.)