Glance

glance is a dead simple php script that queries our elasticsearch database to see how many critical, warning and info alerts have been sent in the last 10 minutes and the last hour.

It’s publicly available via https://glance.mayfirst.org/.

The goal of the site is to provide a quick, easy to access confirmation about whether any problems we have received alerts about are resolved or still active.

Additionally, pigeon sends a heartbeat message every 10 minutes, and glance lists any servers that have not sent a heartbeat, so we can know if the reason there are not alerts is because pigeon has stopped running.

glance is authorized via a special read-only username configured manually via kibana.