Media-Server-Setup/bin/vanguard-deadman.sh

#!/bin/bash
# The deadman: the one check that does not depend on the Elastic stack being alive.
#
# Kibana tells you when something on the box is wrong. Nothing inside Elasticsearch, Kibana or the Beats can
# tell you that they are the thing that broke, and silence looks exactly like health. So this runs on the HOST
# from a systemd timer, uses nothing but curl, and posts straight to a Discord webhook.
#
# It checks six things, in the order they go wrong in practice:
#   1. Elasticsearch answers and the cluster is not red
#   2. no index has been flipped to read-only by the disk watermark — the classic Elastic failure, because it
#      does NOT clear itself when space is freed, so ingestion stays silently dead until someone resets it
#   3. Kibana reports itself available (it is the only UI; if it is down you are blind)
#   4. Filebeat has actually written a document recently — "running" is not the same as "shipping"
#   5. Metricbeat likewise
#   6. the heartbeat a Kibana rule posts to dumpd is fresh, which proves rule evaluation AND delivery work
#   …and the disks, because that is the failure this box is most likely to die of, and it must be reported
#   even when the thing that would normally report it is what broke.
#
# State in /var/lib/vanguard/deadman.state: it announces a change, not the same thing every five minutes,
# and says so once when everything recovers.
#
# No webhook configured? The checks still run and still print to the journal, and the unit exits non-zero
# when it found something it could not report — so `systemctl is-failed vanguard-deadman.service` and
# `journalctl -u vanguard-deadman` remain a signal. It never fails because the webhook is absent alone.
set -uo pipefail

ES="${ES_URL:-http://127.0.0.1:9200}"
KIBANA="${KIBANA_URL:-http://127.0.0.1:5601}"
WEBHOOK_FILE="${ALERT_WEBHOOK_FILE:-/etc/vanguard/alert-webhook}"
HEARTBEAT="${ALERT_HEARTBEAT_FILE:-/srv/media/.markers/alert-heartbeat}"
HEARTBEAT_MAX_S="${HEARTBEAT_MAX_S:-900}"
STALE_MAX_S="${BEAT_STALE_MAX_S:-900}"
STATE="${DEADMAN_STATE:-/var/lib/vanguard/deadman.state}"
DISK_PCT="${DEADMAN_DISK_PCT:-90}"

problems=()
note() { problems+=("$1"); }
jq_get() { python3 -c 'import json,sys
try: d=json.load(sys.stdin)
except Exception: sys.exit(1)
for k in sys.argv[1].split("."):
    d = d.get(k) if isinstance(d, dict) else None
    if d is None: sys.exit(1)
print(d)' "$1" 2>/dev/null; }

# 1. Elasticsearch
health=$(curl -s -m 8 "$ES/_cluster/health" || true)
if [[ -z $health ]]; then
  note "Elasticsearch is not answering on ${ES#http://} — nothing is being stored"
else
  status=$(printf '%s' "$health" | jq_get status)
  case "$status" in
    green|yellow) ;;
    red) note "Elasticsearch cluster health is RED: some index has no usable shard" ;;
    *)   note "Elasticsearch health is unreadable (got: ${status:-nothing})" ;;
  esac

  # 2. read-only indices. Elastic sets this when the disk passes the flood watermark and never unsets it.
  blocked=$(curl -s -m 8 "$ES/_all/_settings/index.blocks.read_only_allow_delete" \
            | python3 -c 'import json,sys
try: d=json.load(sys.stdin)
except Exception: sys.exit(0)
bad=[n for n,v in d.items() if str(v.get("settings",{}).get("index",{}).get("blocks",{}).get("read_only_allow_delete","")).lower()=="true"]
print(len(bad))' 2>/dev/null || echo 0)
  (( ${blocked:-0} > 0 )) && note "$blocked Elasticsearch index/indices are READ-ONLY from the disk watermark; ingestion is dead until this is reset (see README 5h)"

  # 4 and 5. are the Beats actually writing?
  for beat in filebeat metricbeat; do
    count=$(curl -s -m 8 -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
              "$ES/${beat}-*/_count" \
              -d "{\"query\":{\"range\":{\"@timestamp\":{\"gte\":\"now-${STALE_MAX_S}s\"}}}}" | jq_get count)
    if [[ -z ${count:-} ]]; then
      note "cannot tell whether $beat is shipping (no index yet, or the query failed)"
    elif (( count == 0 )); then
      note "$beat has written nothing in the last $((STALE_MAX_S/60)) minutes — it may be up but not shipping"
    fi
  done
fi

# 3. Kibana
level=$(curl -s -m 8 "$KIBANA/api/status" | jq_get status.overall.level)
[[ ${level:-} == available ]] || note "Kibana is not available (${level:-no answer}) — the only UI is down"

# 6. the heartbeat a Kibana rule posts here. Missing right after a restart is not yet a fault; age is.
if [[ -f $HEARTBEAT ]]; then
  age=$(( $(date +%s) - $(stat -c %Y "$HEARTBEAT") ))
  (( age <= HEARTBEAT_MAX_S )) || note "no alert heartbeat for ${age}s (the Kibana rule → webhook → dumpd path is broken)"
else
  note "no alert heartbeat has ever arrived (is the Kibana heartbeat rule created? README 5h)"
fi

# the disks, independently of any agent
while read -r pct mount; do
  (( pct >= DISK_PCT )) && note "$mount is ${pct}% full"
done < <(df --output=pcent,target /srv / 2>/dev/null | tail -n +2 | tr -d '%' | awk '{print $1, $2}')

# ---- report only on change ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
now="$(IFS='|'; echo "${problems[*]-}")"
mkdir -p "$(dirname "$STATE")"
was="$(cat "$STATE" 2>/dev/null || true)"
printf '%s' "$now" > "$STATE"
[[ $now == "$was" ]] && exit 0

webhook=""
if [[ -r $WEBHOOK_FILE ]]; then webhook="$(tr -d '[:space:]' < "$WEBHOOK_FILE" 2>/dev/null || true)"; fi
case "$webhook" in
  https://*) ;;
  "")        webhook="" ;;
  *)         echo "deadman: ALERT_WEBHOOK_URL is not an https URL; ignoring it" >&2; webhook="" ;;
esac

post() {
  [[ -n $webhook ]] || return 1
  curl -s -m 15 -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
    --data "$(python3 -c 'import json,sys; print(json.dumps({"content": sys.argv[1][:1900]}))' "$1")" \
    "$webhook" >/dev/null && return 0
  echo "deadman: the webhook post failed" >&2
  return 1
}

if [[ -z $now ]]; then
  echo "deadman: recovered — Elastic, Kibana, both Beats and the disks are healthy"
  post "✅ **Vanguard monitoring recovered** — Elasticsearch, Kibana and both Beats are healthy again." || true
  exit 0
fi

printf 'deadman: %s\n' "${problems[@]}" >&2
body="⚠️ **Vanguard monitoring is not healthy** (sent from the host, outside Elastic):"
for item in "${problems[@]}"; do body+=$'\n'"• $item"; done
body+=$'\n'"Until this clears, assume no other alert can reach you."
if post "$body"; then exit 0; fi
[[ -z $webhook ]] && echo "deadman: no Discord webhook configured (ALERT_WEBHOOK_URL in .env -> $WEBHOOK_FILE), so the above was not sent" >&2
exit 1