# brotandgames/ciao

HTTP checks & tests (private & public) monitoring - check the status of your URL

Repository: https://github.com/brotandgames/ciao
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/ciao
Homepage: https://brotandgames.com/ciao/
Language: Ruby
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: http, monitoring, uptime, prometheus, website-monitor, alerting, application-monitoring
Last push: 2026-07-16T17:12:32+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 86/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 92, release rhythm 69, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2606, "days_push": 48, "days_rel": 48, "gap_med": 142, "n_releases_24m": 6}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1977, forks 108 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:01.431681+00:00)

## What it is
ciao is a self-hosted web application that checks HTTP(S) URL endpoints for expected status codes on a cron schedule and notifies via email or webhooks on status changes. It ships with a web UI, a RESTful JSON API, Prometheus metrics, and requires no external dependencies like databases.

## Use cases
- monitor uptime of my websites and get alerted when they go down
- check http endpoints on a schedule and notify slack on status change
- self-hosted url status monitoring with a web ui
- track tls certificate expiration before it expires
- expose uptime checks as prometheus metrics for grafana
- monitor internal private services with http checks

## When to choose
- you want a simple, dependency-free uptime monitor deployable with a single docker command
- you need cron-scheduled HTTP checks with email or webhook notifications
- you want Prometheus metrics and a REST API for your URL checks

## When to avoid
- you need multi-step or browser-based synthetic monitoring
- you need a large-scale distributed monitoring system like Prometheus or Zabbix
- you need checks beyond HTTP/TCP such as DNS or database probes

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: monitoring, alerting, http-client, webhook
- domain: monitoring, self-hosted, networking
- platform: self-hosted
- tags: uptime-monitoring, http-checks, prometheus-metrics, cron-scheduling, tls-certificate-expiry, status-page, devops, docker, web-server, kubernetes

## Member repositories
- brotandgames/ciao (main) score 86

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:01.431681+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:04:46.724412+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/brotandgames/ciao (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:01.431681+00:00, sha 7735e05dd4fb)
  - homepage: https://brotandgames.com/ciao/ (fetched 2026-08-29T10:43:48.552446+00:00, sha 79889b83ad36)
  - site_page: https://brotandgames.com/about (fetched 2026-08-29T10:43:48.562019+00:00, sha a41dfad11e97)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.