Website Updates: Monitoring, APIs, & UI Improvements
What developments have taken place today?
This commit significantly enhances website monitoring capabilities by introducing a comprehensive “heartbeat” logging system integrated with Redis and an admin interface. It establishes a structured approach to tracking service availability, providing administrators with immediate insights into potential issues through the admin panel, which displays heartbeat status and consumer information from RabbitMQ queues prefixed with “remotedaemon_”. Furthermore, it emphasizes the importance of metrics for long-term application health by detailing a website checker that measures message insertion to data writing/notification delivery times.
This commit also refines the API endpoints related to website URL metrics. The ApiHandlerWebsiteUrl struct has been updated to include a more complete representation of website URLs, incorporating data from the associated website_url table and adding validation for average ping duration. The code now utilizes this enriched information in API responses, providing more context for monitoring purposes. Additionally, the commit enhances database schema by introducing a website_id column into the website_url_ping_history table, aligning with changes made to repository queries.
Another key development involves enhancing the website detail page user experience. The template and associated JavaScript have been updated to display the ID of the viewed website URL, improving usability and providing clearer identification for each entry. The previous date-based navigation and push notification links have been removed in favor of this more direct approach. A new script tag dynamically loads specific JavaScript files based on the website’s ID, ensuring targeted functionality.
Further improvements include modifications to the website listing page, adding a button for quickly adding new URLs associated with the currently displayed website. The addition of a <script> tag and a corresponding button streamlines the URL management process, simplifying user interaction. Finally, this commit also refactors several repository classes, introducing data validation in ApiHandlerDomain and enhancing the functionality of the MockWebsiteUrlMetricRepository.
In summary, today’s changes are important because they bolster website monitoring, refine API data delivery, enhance user interface elements on the detail page and listing page, and improve code organization for maintainability. These combined efforts result in a more robust, informative, and user-friendly application experience.
website monitoring api improvements ui enhancements codebase refactoring data validation