Python version of a simple monitoring web app

monitor.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import os
import time
from pathlib import Path

import telegram_send
from bottle import Bottle, route, run


@route('/hello')
def hello():
    # Update the 'last modified' time of a specific file to the current time
    Path('status').touch()

    # Show some text to the user, but since this wep app will be
    # called by a script, it doesn't matter what we write
    return "Hello to you too!"


@route('/check/<minutes:int>')
def check(minutes):
    # Get some information about the file
    stinfo = os.stat('status')
    # Get the last modified time in seconds
    last_modified_time = stinfo.st_mtime

    # Get the current time in seconds
    now = time.time()

    # Calculate how much time has passed
    difference = now - last_modified_time
    # and convert it into minutes
    difference = difference / 60

    # Firstly we check if there has been a hello in the last X minutes.
    # If there hasn't we check if the last hello was in the last 2*X minutes,
    # if so, we can send a Telegram message saying that something has gone wrong.
    # If the last hello was more than 2*x minutes ago, then it is still offline.
    if difference < minutes:
        return "It has said hello recently"
    elif difference < minutes * 2:
        telegram_send.send(messages=["It is offline!"], conf="telegram-send.conf")
        return "Offline and I should send a Telegram message"
    else:
        return "Still offline. Should I send a message?"


run(host='localhost', port=8080, debug=True)

Adding support for sending a telegram message using telegram_send

Using a specific configuration file.