Google Stackdriver Uptime Checks API Python Samples

This directory contains samples for Google Stackdriver Uptime Checks API. Stackdriver Monitoring collects metrics, events, and metadata from Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), hosted uptime probes, application instrumentation, and a variety of common application components including Cassandra, Nginx, Apache Web Server, Elasticsearch and many others. Stackdriver's Uptime Checks API allows you to create, delete, and list your project's Uptime Checks.

Setup

Authentication

This sample requires you to have authentication setup. Refer to the Authentication Getting Started Guide for instructions on setting up credentials for applications.

Install Dependencies

1. Clone python-docs-samples and change directory to the sample directory you want to use.

   $ git clone https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/python-docs-samples.git

2. Install pip and virtualenv if you do not already have them. You may want to refer to the Python Development Environment Setup Guide for Google Cloud Platform for instructions.

3. Create a virtualenv. Samples are compatible with Python 2.7 and 3.4+.

   $ virtualenv env
   $ source env/bin/activate

4. Install the dependencies needed to run the samples.

   $ pip install -r requirements.txt

Samples

Snippets

To run this sample:

$ python snippets.py

usage: snippets.py [-h]
                   {list-uptime-check-configs,list-uptime-check-ips,create-uptime-check,get-uptime-check-config,delete-uptime-check-config}
                   ...

Demonstrates Uptime Check API operations.

positional arguments:
  {list-uptime-check-configs,list-uptime-check-ips,create-uptime-check,get-uptime-check-config,delete-uptime-check-config}
    list-uptime-check-configs
    list-uptime-check-ips
    create-uptime-check
    get-uptime-check-config
    delete-uptime-check-config

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit

The client library

This sample uses the Google Cloud Client Library for Python. You can read the documentation for more details on API usage and use GitHub to browse the source and report issues.