Being able to access the status of all the promises in your instance without the need to access Rapid.Space panel or the local SlapOS master is a necessity.

This tutorial explains how to deploy the monitor web service inside the instances of your software release for remote monitoring.

Here is the commit introducing this functionality to html5as Software release: commit diff.

In the monitor app that uses the monitor webservices to aggregate data, you can see the history of failing services.

Add a new parameter monitor-httpd-port in default-parameters of section [instance-html5as]. For backward compatibility the port default to 8197

default-parameters =
  {
    "title": "Tutorial html5as",
    "download_url": "",
    "port": 8081,
    "monitor-httpd-port": 8197
  }

In instance_html5as.cfg.in, overwrite the default listening port for your monitoring service. To do so, you need to add a [monitor-instance-parameter] section in the instance profile and use the key monitor-httpd-port for the port. You can refer to the monitor README to get the full list of keys that can be customized.

# Use a port different from the default one in order to be able to
# use it in a SlapOS webrunner or a Theia SlapOS Runner
[monitor-instance-parameter]
monitor-httpd-port = {{ parameter_dict['monitor-httpd-port'] }}

Use a macro extension to include the content of the publish section of the monitor service in the [publish-connection-information] section of instance_html5as.cfg.in.

[publish-connection-information]
...
# By extending monitor publish, all the section deploying monitoring will
# be deployed. The parameters needed for accessing monitoring will be published
<= monitor-publish
...

Refer How To Move to md5sum automatic update to update md5sum:

$ cd ~/srv/project/slapos/software/html5as-base
$ ../../update-hash

To inspect the output of slapos node software:

$ slapos node software --all

To inspect the output of slapos node instance:

$ slapos node instance --all

In the output of slapos node instance --all, it happens that you are having an error about Invalid URL: 

slapos[41093] ERROR Promise 'monitor-http-frontend.py' failed with output: ERROR: Invalid URL '': No schema supplied. Perhaps you meant http://?

OR

TypeError: in constructor for ComputerPartition: computer_id and partition_id or request_dict are required

It is because that the instance is requesting a RapidSpace CDN to display the monitor. You have to wait untill the error is no longer present, meaning you  have your instance instantiated successfully. You can get the correct monitor-setup-url as soon as the frontend for your monitoring is responded. Relaunch slapos node instance --all to verify if the instance is ready. 

The parameters needed for accessing monitoring will be published. You can get the updated connection parameters by

$ cd ~/srv/project/slapos/software/html5as-base/
$ bash ../../../request-html5as-base.sh

You can then connect to the monitor App with monitor-setup-url from the connection parameters.

You can connect to the monitor App with monitor-setup-url from the connection parameters.