Snapshot Alert Script

Overview

This Python script checks the creation date of snapshots listed in a JSON file (snapshots.json). If any snapshot is older than 30 days, it sends a POST request to a specified webhook URL, alerting you with the snapshot's resource ID.

Requirements

• Python 3.x
• requests library

Installation

1. Clone or download this repository to your local machine.

2. Ensure you have Python 3 installed. You can download it from python.org.

3. Install the requests library if you don't have it already. You can install it using pip:

   pip install requests

Usage

1. Prepare the JSON File:

   • You can retrieve the JSON data using the doctl command line tool. Run the following command to get the list of snapshots and save it to a file named snapshots.json:

     doctl compute snapshot list --output json > snapshots.json

   • Ensure the snapshots.json file is in the same directory as the script. The file should contain snapshot data in the following format:

     [
       {
         "id": "129721643",
         "name": "opnsense-lon1-01-1680180362752",
         "resource_id": "348280077",
         "resource_type": "droplet",
         "regions": ["lon1", "ams3"],
         "min_disk_size": 50,
         "size_gigabytes": 2.96,
         "created_at": "2023-03-30T12:46:04Z"
       },
       {
         "id": "141692420",
         "name": "outl-lon1-01 2023-10-04",
         "resource_id": "375470875",
         "resource_type": "droplet",
         "regions": ["lon1", "ams3"],
         "min_disk_size": 80,
         "size_gigabytes": 2.07,
         "created_at": "2023-10-04T04:56:58Z"
       }
     ]

2. Set the Webhook URL:

   • Open the script file (snapshot_alert.py) and replace 'https://example.com/webhook' with your actual webhook URL.

3. Run the Script:

   • Execute the script using Python:

     python snapshot_alert.py

4. Check the Output:

   • The script will check each snapshot's created_at date. If a snapshot is older than 30 days, it will send an alert to the webhook and print the result.

Script Explanation

The script performs the following steps:

1. Loads the JSON Data:

   • Reads the snapshots.json file and parses its content.

2. Defines the Time Threshold:

   • Calculates a date that is 30 days before the current date and time.

3. Iterates Over Snapshots:

   • For each snapshot, it checks if the created_at date is older than the time threshold.

4. Sends Alerts:

   • If a snapshot is older than 30 days, sends a POST request to the webhook URL with the snapshot's resource_id and an alert message.

Example Output

Alert sent for snapshot 129721643
Alert sent for snapshot 141692420

If the alert fails to send, you will see:

Failed to send alert for snapshot 129721643: <HTTP status code>

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.

Contributing

If you find any issues or have suggestions for improvements, feel free to open an issue or submit a pull request.

Acknowledgements

This script uses the following libraries:

• Requests: HTTP library for Python.

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