Blondie

Blondie is a CLI tool and package that tries to connect to HTTP and TCP endpoints up to a configured timeout.

The success criteria in the case of a TCP socket is a successful connection. HTTP checks can be configured to accept any or one from a list of status codes as successful.

Install

The latest binaries for all supported operating systems are here

You may choose to execute the following script which will download the latest binary to /usr/local/bin/blondie:

sudo curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/myles-mcdonnell/blondie/master/install.sh | sudo sh

If you have Go tool installed you may also run:

go get -u github.com/myles-mcdonnell/blondie/...

Usage

blondie -help

Example CLI usage:

blondie -targets=tcp:icanhazip.com:80:2000,http:icanhazip.com:80:5000,https:github.com:443:4000::200_204 -poll-interval=500 -exit-code-on-connect=0 exit-code-on-fail=2 -quiet-mode=false

Args:

• targets: comma separated host, port, timeoutMilliseconds, path and successHttpCode, e.g. tcp:localhost:8080:20000,http:localhost:80:5000::200,http:localhost:80:5000:health:200_204,http:localhost:80:5 (path and successHttpCode optional for http protocol)
• poll-interval: poll interval in milliseconds, defaults to 250
• exit-code-on-connect: defaults to 0
• exit-code-on-fail: defaults to 1
• quiet-mode: suppress all output, default true

Naming

Why call it Blondie? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWhkbDMISl8