!Upptime

Upptime is the open-source uptime monitor and status page, powered entirely by GitHub Actions and Issues.


Live status: 🟨 Partial outage

⭐ How it works

- GitHub Actions is used as an uptime monitor
- Every 5 minutes, a workflow visits your website to make sure it's up
- Response time is recorded every 6 hours and committed to git
- Graphs of response time are generated every day
- GitHub Issues are used for incident reports
- An issue is opened if an endpoint is down
- People from your team are assigned to the issue
- Incidents reports are posted as issue comments
- Issues are locked so non-members cannot comment on them
- Issues are closed automatically when your site comes back up
- GitHub Pages are used for the status website
- A simple, beautiful, and accessible PWA is generated
- Built with Svelte and Sapper
- Fetches data from this repository using the GitHub API

!Screenshot of status website

📈 Status

_This section is updated automatically when the status of any site changes._

| URL | Status | History | Response Time | Uptime |
| --- | ------ | ------- | ------------- | ------ |
| Google | 🟩 Up | google.yml | 102ms | 100.00%
| Wikipedia | 🟩 Up | wikipedia.yml | 121ms | 100.00%
| Internet Archive | 🟩 Up | internet-archive.yml | 561ms | 100.00%
| Hacker News | 🟩 Up | hacker-news.yml | 425ms | 100.00%
| Broken Site | 🟥 Down | broken-site.yml | 0ms | 0.00%
| Secret Site | 🟩 Up | secret-site.yml | 35ms | 100.00%

👩‍💻 Getting started

1. Create a new repository using this template
2. Update the .statusrc.yml file with your configuration
3. Enable publishing the gh-pages branch for your status website and add a GH_PAT

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#### Issues as incidents

When the GitHub Actions workflow detects that one of your URLs is down, it automatically opens a GitHub issue (example issue #15). You can add incident reports to this issue by adding comments. When your site comes back up, the issue will be closed automatically as well.

#### Commits for response time

Four times per day, another workflow runs and records the response time of your websites. This data is commited to GitHub, so it's available in the commit history of each file (example commit history). Then, the GitHub API is used to graph the response time history of each endpoint and to track when a site went down.

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The .statusrc.yml file is used as the central configuration for Upptime, with this syntax:

``yaml
owner: koj-co # GitHub username
repo: upptime # GitHub repository name
user-agent: koj-co
sites: # List of endpoints to track
- name: Google
url: https://www.google.com
assignees: # Users to assign downtime issues (optional)
- AnandChowdhary
status-website: # Status website (optional)
cname: upptime.js.org # Custom domain CNAME
name: Upptime # Status website title
`

#### Repository

A GitHub repository is used as the "source of truth" for your uptime logs, and the static site uses the GitHub API and fetches data from this repository.

After you've created a new repository using this template (see Creating a repository from a template), specify the username and repository name in the configuration:

`yaml
owner: koj-co
repo: upptime
`

#### Endpoints

You can track as many websites as you like. Add the names and URLs of your endpoints in the sites key:

`yaml
sites:
- name: Google
url: https://www.google.com
- name: DuckDuckGo
url: https://duckduckgo.com
`

To make POST requests (or any other HTTP verb), you can add the method key:

`yaml
sites:
- name: POST to Google
url: https://www.google.com
method: POST
- name: DELETE Example
url: https://example.com
method: DELETE
`

If you don't want to show a URL publicly, you can use repository secrets (see Creating and storing encrypted secrets). Instead of the plain text URL, add the name of the secret prefixed with a $ character:

`yaml
- name: Secret Site
url: $SECRET_SITE
`

In the above example, a secret named SECRET_SITE (without the $) is stored in the repository. Note that you'll also have to add this secret as an environment variable in each workflow file in .github/workflows:

`yaml


Example: .github/workflows/graphs.yml

...

- name: Run script
run: npm run graphs
env:
SECRET_SITE: ${{ secrets.SECRET_SITE }} # Add your repository secret
`

#### User agent

Requests made to the GitHub API must include a valid User-Agent header (see User Agent required). It is recommended to use your GitHub username here:

`yaml
user-agent: your-github-username
`

#### Assignees

You can add members of your team to be assigned to every downtime issue:

`yaml
assignees:
- AnandChowdhary
- CarloBadini
`

If you want particular users to be assigned per-site, you can add assignees under each entry in sites:

`yaml
sites:
- name: Google
url: https://www.google.com
assignees:
- AnandChowdhary
`

#### Branding

A static website with PWA is also generated, and you can customize the logo and name in the navbar:

`yaml
status-website:
name: Upptime
logoUrl: https://example.com/image.jpg
`

If you want to add a custom domain, you can add the cname key:

`yaml
status-website:
name: Upptime
logoUrl: https://example.com/image.jpg
cname: upptime.js.org # Custom CNAME
`

#### Intro text

Optionally, you can add some introductory text to the website. You can use Markdown:

`yaml
status-website:
introTitle: "Upptime is the open-source uptime monitor and status page, powered entirely by GitHub."
introMessage: This is a sample status page which uses real-time data from our Github repository. No server required — just GitHub Actions, Issues, and Pages.
`

#### Site deployment

Because GitHub Pages does not support the default GITHUB_TOKEN available to workflows, you'll have to set a secret GH_PAT with a Personal Access Token. For more info, see: https://github.com/maxheld83/ghpages#secrets.

#### Internationalization

Though our status page is in English, you can use any language with Upptime by supplying the required strings. The list of all required strings is available in site/i18n.yml, and you can add them under the i18n key in the configuration file:

`yaml
i18n:
activeIncidents: Incidentes activos
allSystemsOperational: Todos los sistemas están operativos
# ...
`

📄 License

- Code: MIT © Koj
- Data in the ./history` directory: Open Database License