Just clone the repo, there are no dependencies outside the standard nodejs libs.

Configure your monitors in monitors.json details of the options can be found at https://updown.io/api

An example file is in monitors-example.json

After completion a new file monitors-new.json will be created which contains the contents of monitors.json with the tokens added to each monitor. You can copy this to monitors.json to update your monitors in the future.

APIKEY=abcdef node update-monitors.js

Set the APIKEY environment variable to your updown.io API Key

This uses the cloudflare API to whitelist all updown.io servers. It will delete any existing rules with the notes updownio then add new rules.

[email protected] KEY=abcdef ZONE=gfhijk node whitelist-cloudflare.js

Set EMAIL to your cloudflare login email KEY to your cloudflare API Key ZONE to the id of the zone you wish to add the whitelist to.

This generates a valid nginx config file with allow statements for all updown.io ips the file will be nginx-whitelist.

node whitelist-nginx.js

Note: this isn't the cleanest code but it's functional, this was hacked together to satisify automation needs, feel free to fork/update/clean it up