How to Install Healthchecks on NetBSD

Healthchecks.io is a platform that provides monitoring services for scheduled tasks, cron jobs, and other periodic processes. You can self-host Healthchecks on your own system to monitor your tasks and receive notifications if any of them fail to run. Here is a tutorial on how to install Healthchecks on NetBSD.

Requirements

• A computer running NetBSD
• Superuser privileges
• An internet connection

Installation

1. First, update the package repository by running the following command:

pkgin update

2. Install the required packages: python37, py37-virtualenv, py37-pip, py37-psycopg2, py37-requests, py37-gunicorn, and py37-setproctitle.

pkgin install python37 py37-virtualenv py37-pip py37-psycopg2 py37-requests py37-gunicorn py37-setproctitle

3. Create a new user called healthchecks:

useradd -d /var/healthchecks -m -s /bin/sh healthchecks

4. Switch to the new user:

su healthchecks

5. Create a virtual environment for Healthchecks:

virtualenv venv

6. Activate the virtual environment:

source venv/bin/activate

7. Install Healthchecks using pip:

pip install healthchecks

8. Exit the virtual environment by running:

deactivate

Configuration

1. Create a PostgreSQL database for Healthchecks:

su postgres
createdb healthchecks

2. Edit the Healthchecks configuration file by running:

vi /var/healthchecks/hcenv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/healthchecks/conf.yml

3. Find the following lines in the file:

DB_NAME: ''
DB_USER: ''
DB_PASSWORD: ''

4. Replace the empty values with the PostgreSQL database details:

DB_NAME: 'healthchecks'
DB_USER: 'postgres'
DB_PASSWORD: '<password>'

5. Save and exit the file.

Running Healthchecks

1. Start the Gunicorn server with the following command:

/var/healthchecks/hcenv/bin/gunicorn --bind 127.0.0.1:8000 --workers 4 hc.wsgi

2. You can now access the Healthchecks web interface in your browser at http://localhost:8000.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Healthchecks on your NetBSD machine. To make sure that Healthchecks starts automatically, you can add the Gunicorn command to your system's startup script.