Pingdom Public API 2.1 - A Comprehensive Guide

Pingdom Public API 2.1 provides a powerful interface to automate, integrate and extend Pingdom's monitoring and alerting capabilities. This guide will give you a brief outline of Pingdom API and a few examples of how the API can be used in JavaScript.

Authentication

Before using the Pingdom API, the user needs to authenticate through the user's Pingdom account using API tokens.

API Endpoints

Pingdom Public API 2.1 supports the following endpoints:

1. Checks
2. Contacts
3. Probes
4. Raw Data
5. Maintenance Windows
6. Teams
7. Integrations

JavaScript API Example Codes

Here are a few examples of how to use Pingdom API in JavaScript:

Example 1: Get a list of all checks

const Pingdom = require('pingdom-api');
const pingdom = new Pingdom({
  user: 'YOUR_EMAIL',
  pass: 'YOUR_PASSWORD',
  token: 'YOUR_API_TOKEN',
});

pingdom.checks((err, res, body) => {
  if (err) console.error(err);
  console.log(body);
});

Example 2: Create a new check

pingdom.checks.create({
  name: 'My Check',
  host: 'example.com',
  resolution: 5,
}, (err, res, body) => {
  if (err) console.error(err);
  console.log(body);
});

Example 3: Get a list of all contacts

pingdom.contacts((err, res, body) => {
  if (err) console.error(err);
  console.log(body);
});

Example 4: Create a new contact

pingdom.contacts.create({
  name: 'My Contact',
  type: 'email',
  address: 'me@example.com',
}, (err, res, body) => {
  if (err) console.error(err);
  console.log(body);
});

Conclusion

Pingdom API provides powerful methods to get all the benefits of automated monitoring and alerting. The above-mentioned examples give you a brief introduction to how the JavaScript API can be used with the Pingdom Public API 2.1. To learn more about the API, visit the Pingdom API 2.1 documentation.