Send incident.io Status to New Relic with Synthetics

Here's a quick way to monitor a status page hosted by incident.io with New Relic. Specifically, I'll be using Synthetic monitoring to achieve this with a Scripted API test.

After digging a bit, it looks like data from a typical public status page hosted by incident.io is in this format: https://status.incident.io/proxy/statuspage-name

When you go to this page, you'll get something that looks like this:

Since this is structured JSON data, we can format this and ingest this data as an event in New Relic. Here's the full script

You can also find this here:
https://github.com/pnvnd/nodejs-synthetics/blob/main/scripted_api/incidentio.js

Or check it out here:


const got = require('got');
const statuspage = 'my-statuspage'

const account_id = $secure.ACCOUNT_ID
const ingest_key = $secure.INGEST_KEY

async function getStatusPage() {
  const url = `https://status.incident.io/proxy/${statuspage}`; 
  let resp = await got(url);

  if (resp.statusCode == 200) {
    let data = JSON.parse(resp.body);

    // Create a map for quick lookup of affected components by component_id
    let affectedComponentsMap = {};
    for (let affected of data.summary.affected_components) {
      affectedComponentsMap[affected.component_id] = affected.status;
    }

    // Update components with status if they are affected
    for (let component of data.summary.components) {
      component["eventType"] = "IncidentIOSample";
      component["statuspage"] = `${statuspage}`;
      component["status"] = affectedComponentsMap[component.id] || "operational";
    }

    got.post(`https://insights-collector.newrelic.com/v1/accounts/${account_id}/events`, {
        headers: {
          'Api-Key': `${ingest_key}`,
          'Content-Type': 'application/json'
        },
        json: data.summary.components
      });

      console.log(data.summary.components)

  } else {
    console.log(resp.body);
  }
};

getStatusPage();

Validate the script is working in New Relic then click Save.

Let the synthetic monitor run for a bit and check the data. Using NRQL, you can query your data with something like this:

SELECT * FROM IncidentIOSample

Another way of looking at this data is to view by component name:

SELECT latest(status)
FROM IncidentIOSample
WHERE statuspage='my-statuspage'
FACET name

Now that you have this data in New Relic, you can create alerts and stay on top of incidents hosted by public incident.io status pages.

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Send incident.io Status to New Relic with Synthetics

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