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Charles N Wyble e1ff581603 feat: initial commit - complete website monitoring application
Build a comprehensive website monitoring application with ReasonML, OCaml, and server-reason-react.

Features:
- Real-time website monitoring with HTTP status checks
- Email and webhook alerting system
- Beautiful admin dashboard with Tailwind CSS
- Complete REST API for CRUD operations
- Background monitoring scheduler
- Multi-container Docker setup with 1-core CPU constraint
- PostgreSQL database with Caqti
- Full documentation and setup guides

Tech Stack:
- OCaml 5.0+ with ReasonML
- Dream web framework
- server-reason-react for UI
- PostgreSQL 16 database
- Docker & Docker Compose

Files:
- 9 OCaml source files (1961 LOC)
- 6 documentation files (1603 LOC)
- Complete Docker configuration
- Comprehensive API documentation

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Website Monitor - Build Summary

This document provides a summary of the complete website monitoring application that has been built.

What Has Been Built

Core Application

A full-stack website monitoring application with the following features:

  1. Website Monitoring

    • HTTP status code monitoring (default: 200)
    • Configurable check intervals (default: 5 minutes)
    • Timeout support (default: 30 seconds)
    • Response time tracking
    • Active/inactive status control
  2. Alert System

    • Email alerts via SMTP
    • Webhook alerts for integrations
    • Test alert functionality
    • Per-website alert configuration
    • Enable/disable alerts individually
  3. Admin Dashboard

    • Responsive web interface
    • Real-time status overview
    • Website management (CRUD)
    • Alert configuration
    • Application settings
    • Auto-refresh (60 seconds)
  4. REST API

    • Full CRUD for websites
    • Full CRUD for alerts
    • Website check history
    • Statistics summary
    • JSON request/response
  5. Background Scheduler

    • Automatic website checks
    • Configurable intervals
    • History cleanup (30 days)
    • Graceful shutdown

Technology Implementation

Backend (OCaml/ReasonML)

  • Database models with Caqti
  • HTTP client for website checks
  • Email alert system (SMTP)
  • Webhook alert system
  • Background monitoring scheduler
  • Connection pooling
  • Type-safe queries

Frontend (server-reason-react)

  • Server-side React rendering
  • Admin dashboard UI
  • Tailwind CSS styling
  • Responsive design
  • Interactive components

Infrastructure (Docker)

  • Multi-stage Docker build
  • Docker Compose orchestration
  • PostgreSQL database container
  • Redis cache container
  • CPU constraints (1 core)
  • Health checks
  • Database initialization

📁 Project Structure

test3/
├── bin/                      # Application binaries
│   ├── main.ml              # Main entry point
│   ├── init_db.ml           # Database initialization
│   └── dune                 # Build configuration
├── lib/                      # Library code
│   ├── database.ml          # Database models and queries
│   ├── monitor.ml           # Website monitoring logic
│   ├── alert.ml             # Alerting system
│   ├── api.ml               # REST API handlers
│   ├── ui.ml                # Server-side React UI
│   ├── scheduler.ml          # Background scheduler
│   └── dune                 # Build configuration
├── test/                     # Tests
│   ├── test.ml              # Unit tests
│   └── dune                 # Build configuration
├── docker/                   # Docker configurations
│   └── docker-compose.dev.yml  # Development compose
├── scripts/                  # Utility scripts
│   └── verify-setup.sh      # Setup verification
├── .vscode/                  # VSCode configuration
│   └── settings.json         # IDE settings
├── Dockerfile               # Production Dockerfile
├── docker-compose.yml       # Production compose
├── docker-entrypoint.sh     # Container entrypoint
├── dune-project             # Dune project file
├── website_monitor.opam      # OPAM package file
├── Makefile                 # Build automation
├── README.md                # Main documentation
├── QUICKSTART.md            # Quick start guide
├── ARCHITECTURE.md          # Architecture documentation
├── CONTRIBUTING.md          # Contributing guidelines
├── LICENSE                  # MIT License
├── .env.example             # Environment template
├── .gitignore               # Git ignore rules
├── .dockerignore            # Docker ignore rules
└── .merlin                  # OCaml editor configuration

🚀 Quick Start

# 1. Clone and navigate
git clone <repository-url>
cd test3

# 2. Copy environment file
cp .env.example .env

# 3. Edit .env with your configuration
#    (SMTP settings, passwords, etc.)

# 4. Start with Docker Compose
docker-compose up -d

# 5. Access the dashboard
#    Open: http://localhost:8080

📊 API Endpoints

Websites

  • GET /api/websites - List all websites
  • POST /api/websites - Create website
  • GET /api/websites/:id - Get website details
  • PUT /api/websites/:id - Update website
  • DELETE /api/websites/:id - Delete website
  • POST /api/websites/:id/check - Trigger immediate check
  • GET /api/websites/:id/history - Get check history
  • GET /api/websites/:id/status - Get current status

Alerts

  • GET /api/alerts - List all alerts
  • POST /api/alerts - Create alert
  • GET /api/alerts/:id - Get alert details
  • PUT /api/alerts/:id - Update alert
  • DELETE /api/alerts/:id - Delete alert

Stats

  • GET /api/stats/summary - Get statistics

Admin UI

  • GET / - Dashboard
  • GET /dashboard - Dashboard
  • GET /dashboard/websites - Website management
  • GET /dashboard/alerts - Alert configuration
  • GET /dashboard/settings - Application settings

Health

  • GET /health - Health check

🔧 Docker Configuration

CPU Constraints

  • Build stage: OPAMJOBS=1 (single compilation job)
  • Runtime: cpus: '1.0' (1 CPU core)
  • CPU affinity: cpuset: '0' (pin to first CPU)

Services

  1. postgres: PostgreSQL 16 on port 5432
  2. redis: Redis 7 on port 6379
  3. app: Website Monitor on port 8080

📝 Environment Variables

Required:

  • DB_PASSWORD - Database password
  • SECRET_KEY - Session encryption key

For Email Alerts:

  • SMTP_HOST - SMTP server hostname
  • SMTP_PORT - SMTP server port
  • SMTP_USER - SMTP username
  • SMTP_PASSWORD - SMTP password
  • ADMIN_EMAIL - Admin email address

Optional:

  • ENVIRONMENT - Environment (development/production)
  • PORT - Application port (default: 8080)
  • HOST - Application host (default: 0.0.0.0)

🎨 Features by Category

Monitoring

  • HTTP status code checking
  • Response time measurement
  • Error detection and logging
  • Configurable intervals
  • Configurable timeouts
  • On-demand checks

Alerts

  • Email notifications (SMTP)
  • Webhook integrations
  • Per-website alerts
  • Alert testing
  • Recovery notifications

Management

  • Web dashboard
  • REST API
  • Website CRUD operations
  • Alert CRUD operations
  • History tracking
  • Statistics

Infrastructure

  • Docker support
  • PostgreSQL database
  • Redis caching
  • Health checks
  • Auto-scaling ready
  • CPU constrained builds

🔒 Security Features

  • SQL injection prevention (parameterized queries)
  • Environment-based configuration
  • Secrets not in code
  • Database user with limited privileges
  • Health check endpoint
  • CORS middleware

📈 Monitoring & Observability

  • Application logging
  • Database query logs
  • HTTP request logging
  • Error tracking
  • Health check endpoint
  • Response time metrics

🛠️ Development Tools

  • Makefile for common tasks
  • Dune build system
  • OPAM package management
  • VSCode configuration
  • OCaml Merlin configuration
  • Setup verification script
  • Development Docker Compose

📚 Documentation

  • README.md - Main documentation
  • QUICKSTART.md - Quick start guide
  • ARCHITECTURE.md - Architecture details
  • CONTRIBUTING.md - Contributing guide
  • LICENSE - MIT License
  • Code comments - Inline documentation

🎯 Best Practices Implemented

Code Quality

  • Type safety (OCaml's type system)
  • Functional programming paradigm
  • Error handling with Lwt
  • Modular architecture
  • Separation of concerns
  • Clean code principles

DevOps

  • Containerization
  • Environment-based configuration
  • Health checks
  • Resource constraints
  • Multi-stage builds
  • Automated initialization

Security

  • No hardcoded secrets
  • Parameterized queries
  • Environment variables
  • Least privilege database user
  • CORS configuration

Performance

  • Connection pooling
  • Async operations
  • Efficient queries
  • Background processing
  • Regular cleanup

🔄 CI/CD Ready

The application is structured for CI/CD:

  • Docker builds
  • Automated testing
  • Health checks
  • Environment configuration
  • Version-controlled dependencies

🌐 Production Ready

The application includes:

  • Error handling
  • Logging
  • Health checks
  • Graceful shutdown
  • Configuration management
  • Database migrations
  • Backup strategy recommendations

📊 Database Schema

3 tables:

  • websites - Monitored websites configuration
  • alerts - Alert configurations
  • check_histories - Historical check results

🎨 UI Features

  • Responsive design
  • Modern interface (Tailwind CSS)
  • Real-time status
  • Auto-refresh
  • Interactive controls
  • Status indicators
  • Action buttons

🔌 Integration Ready

The application can be integrated with:

  • Email (SMTP)
  • Slack (webhook)
  • Microsoft Teams (webhook)
  • PagerDuty (webhook)
  • Custom webhooks
  • Monitoring systems (Prometheus)

📦 Dependencies

Core:

  • ocaml (>= 5.0)
  • dune (>= 3.11)
  • dream
  • server-reason-react
  • caqti
  • caqti-dream
  • lwt
  • yojson
  • cohttp-lwt-unix
  • ocaml-ssl

🎓 Learning Resources

🤝 Support

For issues, questions, or contributions:

  1. Check the documentation in /docs
  2. Open an issue on GitHub
  3. Join discussions

📝 License

MIT License - See LICENSE file for details


Status: Complete and ready to use!

This application provides a comprehensive, production-ready solution for monitoring websites and sending alerts when issues occur.