I was tasked with a low-priority project at work that will be used to monitor any websites/services belonging to our clients (mantained by us) and figured that it could be a good time to show the benefits of using Elixir. My thought was that since this is a very simple task, I could focus on following the best practices and as a practical excercise for me, since I always read/listen about Elixir but don’t have much time to actually write it…

What I have planned so far is a supervised GenServer that routinely calls itself to execute the task every X seconds, where the task is performing a GET at /healthz and looking for a 200 reply or a basic ping if I get a 404 there. That task would run that function for each domain registered using a Task. All of this would be published to a very simple LiveView dashboard (to show LiveView’s potential, too).

I was also planning on using a document-store in GCE or AWS to store the registered domains (keeping the program very simple and sort of stateless, I’d like to try and run it in Kubernetes for testing).

I’m aware that this is a very simple task but I’d love any opinions or suggestions on this. I don’t want to over-engineer since this will be used only for a few websites, but I also don’t want to “brute force” everything, so to speak.

As a sidenote, I had the idea of doing this with LiveView but optimizing it for viewing through a terminal with cURL or similar programs. e.g. calling the service’s endpoint and start viewing a TUI dashbord. Would this be too crazy?

Thanks in advance.