pingdom-python

Pingdom is one of several monitoring tools we use at EA2D. Besides alerting us when things go down, we query Pingdom's API to include check status in our dashboards.

The old Pingdom SOAP API was unwieldy and slow. Fortunately, Pingdom released a new, JSON-ified REST API that remedied the problems of its predecessor.

I've written a Python library for this new API and released it as open source. For now, it supports only a subset of available resources, but the framework is there for others to be added easily.

https://github.com/mbabineau/pingdom-python

pingdom-python in action

Set up a Pingdom connection:

>>> import pingdom
>>> c = pingdom.PingdomConnection(PINGDOM_USERNAME, PINGDOM_PASSWORD)  # Same credentials you use for the Pingdom website

Create a new Pingdom check:

>>> c.create_check('EA2D Website', 'ea2d.com', 'http')
Check:EA2D Website

Get basic information about a Pingdom check:

>>> check = c.get_all_checks(['EA2D Website'])[0]   # Expects a list, returns a list
>>> check.id
302632
>>> check.status
u'up'

Get more detailed information about a Pingdom check:

>>> check = c.get_check(210702)  # Look up by check ID
>>> check.lasterrortime
1289482981

Delete a Pingdom check:

>>> c.delete_check(302632)
{u'message': u'Deletion of check was successful!'}

Go check it out on GitHub, or install it directly from PyPI:

sudo easy_install pingdom

If you have any questions, drop me a line: michael.babineau@gmail.com.