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:
-
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
-
Alert System
- Email alerts via SMTP
- Webhook alerts for integrations
- Test alert functionality
- Per-website alert configuration
- Enable/disable alerts individually
-
Admin Dashboard
- Responsive web interface
- Real-time status overview
- Website management (CRUD)
- Alert configuration
- Application settings
- Auto-refresh (60 seconds)
-
REST API
- Full CRUD for websites
- Full CRUD for alerts
- Website check history
- Statistics summary
- JSON request/response
-
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 websitesPOST /api/websites- Create websiteGET /api/websites/:id- Get website detailsPUT /api/websites/:id- Update websiteDELETE /api/websites/:id- Delete websitePOST /api/websites/:id/check- Trigger immediate checkGET /api/websites/:id/history- Get check historyGET /api/websites/:id/status- Get current status
Alerts
GET /api/alerts- List all alertsPOST /api/alerts- Create alertGET /api/alerts/:id- Get alert detailsPUT /api/alerts/:id- Update alertDELETE /api/alerts/:id- Delete alert
Stats
GET /api/stats/summary- Get statistics
Admin UI
GET /- DashboardGET /dashboard- DashboardGET /dashboard/websites- Website managementGET /dashboard/alerts- Alert configurationGET /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
- postgres: PostgreSQL 16 on port 5432
- redis: Redis 7 on port 6379
- app: Website Monitor on port 8080
📝 Environment Variables
Required:
DB_PASSWORD- Database passwordSECRET_KEY- Session encryption key
For Email Alerts:
SMTP_HOST- SMTP server hostnameSMTP_PORT- SMTP server portSMTP_USER- SMTP usernameSMTP_PASSWORD- SMTP passwordADMIN_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
- OCaml: https://ocaml.org/
- ReasonML: https://reasonml.github.io/
- Dream: https://github.com/aantron/dream
- Dune: https://dune.build/
- Docker: https://www.docker.com/
🤝 Support
For issues, questions, or contributions:
- Check the documentation in
/docs - Open an issue on GitHub
- 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.