How to Monitor Uptime of 20 Websites (Ping or HTTP) in Node.js/RoR

Question

What\'s the best way to ping a list of 20 websites every 5 minutes (for example) in order to know if the site responds with HTTP 202 or not?

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Answer 1

use monitoring tools like zabbix, nagios, blah blah which can metric various parameters of your servers in mass numbers.

if u would like to implement it in js, u can do a time interval-ed http request, then to determine http return status code, and use xpath or regex to validate certain element is correct

for ruby, a daemon process and use a thread pool (multithreading idea) and URI open to view the http code and the content, use xpath to validate if the content is behave correctly.