In this tutorial, we will walk you through the steps to install Healthchecks on Ubuntu Server using the Healthchecks self-hosted package. Healthchecks is a monitoring tool for running periodic checks on your service's infrastructure components or any other type of periodic tasks.
Before we start, make sure you have the following prerequisites:
Firstly, log in to your Ubuntu Server and open a terminal. In the terminal, navigate to your preferred installation directory and clone the Healthchecks repository from GitHub using the following command:
git clone https://github.com/healthchecks/healthchecks.git
After cloning the Healthchecks repository, we need to create a virtual environment for the application. A virtual environment is a self-contained space that holds the application's dependencies, which helps to isolate it from the global environment. In the cloned directory, create a virtual environment and activate it by running the following commands:
cd healthchecks
virtualenv -p python3 venv
source venv/bin/activate
Now, let's install the required Python packages using the following command:
pip install -r requirements.txt
In this step, we will configure the Healthchecks application to suit our needs. Healthchecks provides a configuration file template in the "hc/settings.yml.dist" file. We need to create a copy of this file and rename it to "hc/settings.yml" by running the following command:
cp hc/settings.yml{.dist,}
Next, open the newly created "hc/settings.yml" file using a text editor and configure it according to your preference. Edit the database configuration, time zone, email settings, and other settings as needed.
After configuring Healthchecks, we need to migrate the database schema using the following command:
./manage.py migrate
Now, let's create an administrator account to manage Healthchecks using the following command:
./manage.py createsuperuser
Enter the requested information for the administrator account, including username, email, and password.
Finally, we are ready to test the Healthchecks application. Start the Healthchecks server using the following command:
./manage.py runserver
Open a web browser and navigate to http://localhost:8000/healthchecks/ to verify that the application is running correctly. If everything is working as expected, you should see a login page where you can enter your administrator account credentials.
To deploy Healthchecks for production use, you should serve it with a web server such as Nginx, uWSGI, or Apache. You can also configure it to run as a system service to start automatically at boot time.
In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install the Healthchecks monitoring tool on Ubuntu Server. We hope that you find this tutorial helpful and that you have successfully installed Healthchecks on your server. If you encounter any issues during the installation process, please let us know.
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