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- <h1>Signalling failures</h1>
- <p>Append <code>/fail</code> to a ping URL and use it to actively signal a failure.
- Requesting the <code>/fail</code> URL will immediately mark the check as "down".
- You can use this feature to minimize the delay from your monitored service failing
- to you getting a notification.</p>
- <h2>Python</h2>
- <p>Below is a skeleton code example in Python which signals a failure when the
- work function returns an unexpected value or throws an exception:</p>
- <div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">requests</span>
- <span class="n">URL</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s2">"PING_URL"</span>
-
- <span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">do_work</span><span class="p">():</span>
- <span class="c1"># Do your number crunching, backup dumping, newsletter sending work here.</span>
- <span class="c1"># Return a truthy value on success.</span>
- <span class="c1"># Return a falsy value or throw an exception on failure.</span>
- <span class="k">return</span> <span class="bp">True</span>
-
- <span class="n">success</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="bp">False</span>
- <span class="k">try</span><span class="p">:</span>
- <span class="n">success</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">do_work</span><span class="p">()</span>
- <span class="k">finally</span><span class="p">:</span>
- <span class="c1"># On success, requests PING_URL</span>
- <span class="c1"># On failure, requests PING_URL/fail</span>
- <span class="n">requests</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">get</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">URL</span> <span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">success</span> <span class="k">else</span> <span class="n">URL</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="s2">"/fail"</span><span class="p">)</span>
- </pre></div>
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