Nagios Notifications via Twitter
Jun 12th, 2010 by Alex
At the request of a client, I looked into providing Nagios notifications via Twitter.
Most of the implementations (curl, Net::Twitter, and py-nag) use basic authentication to Twitter’s JSON-based update API without the benefit of SSL. Some of these implementations are more full-featured than others, such as allowing private messages instead of directed messages. There’s also talk of the basic authentication being deprecated in lieu of OAuth. All things to consider.
I haven’t decided what route to go. In any event, it’ll require a new Twitter account solely for the purpose.
