Crier is an open-source server status service. Try saying that three times fast.

It allows you to quickly build a server status page that'll look a bit like this:

• status.shopify.com
• status.github.com
• status.heroku.com

• Support for multiple service modules with different statuses
• API for updating the status from your favourite monitoring tool(s)
• Status history
• Custom messages detailing any issues

1. Clone the repo

2. Run bundle to install necessary gems

3. Run rake db:migrate to bootstrap the db

4. Run rake db:seed to get some component data into the db (there's no other interface for doing this right now)

5. Start the server rails s