Tortuga 🏴‍☠️

"Make way! Make way for Tortuga!" — Captain Barbossa

A terminal-based HTTP endpoint monitor written in Rust. Tortuga watches your HTTP services, renders a live dashboard in the terminal, and fires instant alerts via Telegram and Slack/Discord webhooks whenever a service goes up or down.

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Why I built Tortuga

I wanted a lightweight, self-hosted way to keep an eye on a handful of HTTP services — APIs, health endpoints, personal projects — without spinning up a full observability stack or relying on a paid SaaS tool.

The result is a single Rust binary: drop in a config.toml, run it, and you get a live terminal dashboard plus push notifications the moment something changes status.

Repository: github.com/gianlucarea/tortuga

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Dashboard

┌─────────────────────────────── Tortuga ────────────────────────────────┐
│ Name            URL                            Status  HTTP  Uptime  ms │
│ httpbin OK      https://httpbin.org/status/200 UP      200   100%    87 │
│ httpbin 404     https://httpbin.org/status/404 DOWN    404    0%    102 │
│ Example.com     https://example.com            UP      200    99%   210 │
├─────────────────────────────── Events ─────────────────────────────────┤
│ 16:34:01  [httpbin OK] Unknown → UP (HTTP 200)                          │
│ 16:34:02  [httpbin 404] Unknown → DOWN (HTTP 404)                       │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Green = UP · Red = DOWN · Yellow = Unknown / timeout

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Features

• •Live TUI dashboard — real-time ratatui table refreshed every second, showing status, HTTP code, uptime %, response time, and last-checked timestamp
• •Concurrent monitoring — each endpoint runs in its own async task (tokio) with an independent polling interval and timeout
• •Telegram alerts — instant push notifications via the Telegram Bot API to a channel or chat
• •Webhook alerts — Slack-compatible JSON POST to any webhook URL (Slack, Discord, etc.)
• •State persistence — uptime counters and last status survive restarts via a local state.json
• •Graceful shutdown — press q or Ctrl-C to exit cleanly; state is flushed to disk

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Architecture and components

Config loader (config.rs)

• •Parses config.toml using serde + toml
• •Supports global defaults (Telegram token, webhook URL, state file path) with per-endpoint overrides
• •Each endpoint declares a name, URL, polling interval, optional expected status code, and timeout

Monitor (monitor.rs)

• •Spawns one tokio task per endpoint
• •Each task loops: fires an HTTP GET via reqwest, evaluates the response against expected_status, updates the shared state, and sleeps for interval_secs
• •Status transitions (UP → DOWN, DOWN → UP, Unknown → *) trigger alert dispatch

Alert dispatcher (alert.rs)

• •Telegram: sends a formatted message via https://api.telegram.org/bot<token>/sendMessage
• •Webhook: POSTs a Slack-compatible JSON payload to the configured URL
• •Both channels are optional; per-endpoint overrides take precedence over global config

State (state.rs)

• •Holds a HashMap<endpoint_name, EndpointState> with total checks, up-count, last HTTP code, and last checked time
• •Serialized to / deserialized from state.json on startup and shutdown (and periodically while running)

TUI (ui.rs)

Built with ratatui and crossterm.

The interface uses a two-section layout:

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Configuration

[global]
state_file = "state.json"

telegram_bot_token = "123456:ABC-DEF..."
telegram_chat_id   = "@mychannel"

# webhook_url = "https://hooks.slack.com/services/YOUR/WEBHOOK/URL"

[[endpoints]]
name            = "My API"
url             = "https://api.example.com/health"
interval_secs   = 30
expected_status = 200
timeout_secs    = 10

[[endpoints]]
name          = "Example.com"
url           = "https://example.com"
interval_secs = 60

Configuration reference

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Tech stack

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Usage

# Clone and build
git clone https://github.com/gianlucarea/tortuga
cd tortuga
cargo build --release

# Run with default config.toml
./target/release/tortuga

# Specify a custom config
./target/release/tortuga --config /etc/tortuga/prod.toml