pingdompy

Python library for interacting with Pingdom services (REST API and maintenance windows).

Features

• Check management: create, delete, update, list
• Maintenance windows: create, delete, list
• Fetching outage summaries

Requirements

• Pingdom account
• requests (0.10.8 or newer)

Installation

pip install pingdompy

Usage

The client object will allow you to interact with the API.

>>> import pingdompy
>>> client = pingdompy.Client(apikey="your api key")

Checks

Since Pingdom does not treat the check name as identifier (as we probably want to do) the client object will retrieve the check list from the API and cache it as a dictionary ( check_name => check_instance). You can access it through the checks attribute:

>>> client.checks["my awesome check"]
pingdom.Check <1895866>
  autoresolve: 0
  alert_policy: 2118909
  name: example_com
  created: 1448565930
  lasterrortime: 1489325292
  resolution: 1
  lastresponsetime: 558
  lasttesttime: 1489847772
  alert_policy_name: Production Systems
  paused: False
  host: hostname.example.com
  acktimeout: 0
  ipv6: False
  use_legacy_notifications: False
  type: http
  tags: []

a better way to retrieve a check would be:

>>> client.get_check("my awesome check")

that will return None if the check doesn't exists

List checks with production and frontend tags:

>>> client.get_checks(filters={"tags": ["production", "frontend"]})

Create a check:

>>> check_definition = {
        "name": "My awesome check",
        "paused": True,
        "alert_policy": 201745,
        "type": "http",
        "host": "www.google.com",
        "url": "/",
        "requestheaders": {
            'XCustom': 'my header value'
        },
        "tags": [{"name": "pingdompy-test"}, {"name": "custom-tag"}],
        "encryption": False
    }
>>> client.create_check(check_definition)

Refers to this page for the list of options.

When you create or modify a check some related entity need to be referenced by id:

Integrations

To enable/disable an integration plugins (like webhooks) use the field integrationids (array with integer ids to set or "null" tring to remove it)

Alert policies

To bind an alerting policy use the field alert_policy (numeric id to set it or string "null" to disable alerts)

Update a check:

>>> client.update_check(check, {"paused": True})

this will return True if an effective change was sent to the API and False otherwise (useful for idempotent usage, like ansible modules)

Delete a check:

>>> client.delete_check(check)

Maintenance windows

Retreive maintenance windows for production websites in the last 7 days:

>>> import datetime
>>> checks = client.get_checks(filters={"tags": ["production", "frontend"]})
>>> start = datetime.datetime.now() - datetime.timedelta(days=7)
>>> client.get_maintenances(filters={"checks": checks, "after": start})

Create a 1 hour maintenance window for production websites:

>>> start = datetime.datetime.now() + datetime.timedelta(minutes=10)
>>> end = start + datetime.timedelta(hours=1)

>>> window = client.create_maintenance({"checks": checks, "name": maint_name, \
     "start": start, "stop": end, "uptime_ids": arg_uptimeid})

> Setting the "checks" to none will allow you pass in an uptime ID rather than a tag

Delete future maintenance windows:

>>> windows = client.get_maintenances(filters={"checks": checks, "after": datetime.datetime.now()}):
>>> for m in maintenances:
    client.delete_maintenance(m)

Reporting/summary

Retrieve average response time and uptime summaries:

>>> checkid = client.get_check("my awesome check")._id
>>> start = int(time.time()) - 30*24*60*60 # 30 days back
>>> end = time.time()
>>> client.get_summary_average(checkid, start, end, include_uptime="true")