# heartbeet - Health Check utility for hosts

This utility is mainly for sending "is up" notification to Graphite server.

## Environment Variables

* PROJECT_NAME: Name of project which is included in metric name
* RUN_MODE: This is usually the environment which it ran in, usually prod/stage/test/dev
* GRAPHITE_KEY: This key is used as prefix if needed.
* GRAPHITE_ADDRESS: Address of graphite carbon, e.g. `127.0.0.1:2003`


## Run

Just run with required environment variables

```bash
$ GRAPHITE_ADDRESS=graphitehost.local:2003 RUN_MODE=stage PROJECT_NAME=nginx ./heartbeet
```