Runscope Integration with Mattermost
24 Sep 2016Runscope is an API monitoring and testing tool. It allows you to test your web service endpoints periodically (say every 5 mins) for uptime & errors with a good support for alert and notifications.
We are using Runscope at my workplace to monitor our web services. It has great integration with Slack so any Runscope tests that results in error would post a notification on one of our Slack channels.
As I wrote earlier, we are replacing Slack with an open source alternative - Mattermost.
Now the problem is that Runscope does not provide any ready-to-use integration with Mattermost. So, we need to do more toil. Basically we can use Webhook Notifications. To do this, you run a web service on public IP (or behind ELB) and register it with RunScope for tests you are interested in. This web service will receive a callback from Runscope (and HTTP POST) in a certain format containing all data about the test that ran. Your web service can take appropriate action for the callback - e.g. in our case - if we detect there is an error we send a HTTP POST to Mattermost with data in same format as we were getting on Slack.
I have written some example code in go - runscope-mattermost-hook for the integration service which you may refer or use. If you have feedback please tweet to me.