Bash - Check status for API, if status is unknown PING admin via SMS. To avoid extra text messages that day we save a textfile with a prefix specific to the day of alert.

notify_46elks.sh

#!/bin/bash
response=$(curl http://localhost:3000/api/status)

alert () {
  curl -X POST \
  -u username:password \
  -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" \
  -d "from=BRON" \
  -d "message=Status for API is unknown! 😭" \
  -d "to=+467900000" \
  'https://api.46elks.com/a1/SMS'
}

if [ "$response" = "true" ]; then
  echo "All is well.. $(date)"
else
  $today=$(date +%y%m%d).txt
  if [ -e $today ]; then
  echo "File $today already exists!"
  else
    echo >> $today
    alert
  fi
fi