Icinga Slack Bot

I took quite some time but here it is: The first major release 🎉

This release adds most of the Icinga2 API actions which can be performed on objects. Also handling comments, downtimes and acknowledgements are now fully supported.

Features:

• Reschedule host or service #26
• Implement enable/disable command to modify application features #24
• Add/display comments, acknowledgements and downtimes to host and service status results #25
• Add ability to remove acknowledgements/downtimes/comments #29
• Add command to display services/hosts which are ack/dt/com #38
• Allow to use previous command options with special option „!!“ #37
• Add action to delay notifications #33
• Add comments and downtime details to object details view #31
• Add “💬” to host and service title if these objects have comments #30
• Add „(handled)“ to host/service links #28
• Add command to send custom notification #27
• Query user details delayed #23
• Parse filters with quotes differently to allow for explicit names #18
• Tell user on error which command the user is using #40

Bug fixes:

• Take care of pending services without check result #39

Documentation

• Add description of slack bot creation to README #35

Internal:

• Refactor internal command parsing and create class with command methods #19

Dependencies

• Move to icinga2apic as dependency #32

Features:

• Added action to acknowledge problematic hosts/services #1
• Added action to set a downtime for hosts/services #4
• Added a status overview command #2
• Added Dockerfile #3
• Added Icinga status command #5
• Added config option to limit max returned results #7
• Handled hosts/services are not displayed any longer with default host/service status command #6
• Added filter option to config file to limit results to single hosts or host groups #8
• Added a more detailed help, help can be called for each command #9

Bug fixes:

• host state not reporting hosts in NOT UP state while running default query #15

Internal:

• Splitted code into modules #12

Road to Initial Release

• check icinga connection
• configure default channel to post after bot start
• proper message formatting
• add systemd unit file
• add README.md
• fix logging
• document functions
• add debug logging
• add description
• proper icinga2 error handling
• add all icinga2api connection options (ca, cert, key, timeout)
• add icingaweb2 url to bot responses and error handler
• circumvent "[ERROR] block must be less than 3000 characters"
• add state change time to host and service status messages (detailed view)
• add fallback text to slack messages to display push messages
• use attachments to display bot commands