django-watchman blog post

watchman-pingdom.md

1. Create a new check in Pingdom
2. Give it a name that you'll remember, like accounting-watchman
3. Set your check interval. We recommend 1m or 5m checks.
4. Plug in the endpoint url, like `https://accounting.waveapps.com/watchman/
5. Open up Optional Settings. Under Check for string, change the first dropdown to Should not contain, and add "ok": false in the input field
6. Test your check, and then save it if everything looks good!

watchman-quickstart.md

1. Install django-watchman:

   pip install django-watchman

2. Add watchman to your INSTALLED_APPS setting:

   INSTALLED_APPS = ( ... 'watchman', )

3. Include the watchman URLconf in your project urls.py:

   url(r'^watchman/', include('watchman.urls')),

4. Start the development server and visit http://127.0.0.1:8000/watchman/ to get a JSON response of your backing service statuses:

   { "databases": [ { "default": { "ok": true } } ], "caches": [ { "default": { "ok": true } } ] }