BLUEPRINT · api-health-sentinel
API health sentinel
Polls a status endpoint and alerts only when the status changes — you hear about the outage once, and you hear when it recovers. No LLM, free to run. Ships watching Anthropic's status page; point it at any Statuspage JSON.
- Runs
- every 5 minutes
- Leash
- required
How it decides
- OBSERVE · source
http_fetch - FILTER · gate
fast_path_diff - REASON · reason
no model - ACT · act
notify_webhook ●write_state
● = touches the outside world (leashed by default)
What it costs
No model calls. Alerts on change, both directions.
What you'll need
WEBHOOK_URL
Make it yours
Ships watching Anthropic's status page; point it at any Statuspage JSON.
-
sources.status.url -
https://status.anthropic.com/api/v2/status.json
Full YAML
# A zero-LLM status watcher: polls a Statuspage-style JSON endpoint and alerts
# only when the status indicator CHANGES (up→down and down→up both alert).
blueprint:
id: api-health-sentinel
title: API health sentinel
description: >-
Polls a status endpoint and alerts only when the status changes — you hear
about the outage once, and you hear when it recovers. No LLM, free to run.
Ships watching Anthropic's status page; point it at any Statuspage JSON.
config:
synth:
name: Health sentinel
goal: Alert me when the service's status changes, in either direction.
schedule_seconds: 300
requires_credentials:
- WEBHOOK_URL
sources:
- id: status
primitive: http_fetch
config:
url: https://status.anthropic.com/api/v2/status.json
json: true
fast_path:
primitive: fast_path_diff
inputs:
current: $sources.status.json.status.indicator
previous: $state.last_indicator
actions:
- if: $fast_path.triggered
primitive: notify_webhook
config:
url: $secrets.WEBHOOK_URL
body:
alert: Service status changed
now: $sources.status.json.status.description
change: $fast_path.diff
- always: true
primitive: write_state
config:
last_indicator: $sources.status.json.status.indicator
checked_at: $tick.started_at Install
In the control room
Blueprints → API health sentinel → Shadow, then Deploy.
To change something first (see Make it yours): View config, copy the JSON, and paste it into + Install a Synth.
With your AI
Ask: "Clone the api-health-sentinel blueprint." It uses caedos_blueprints, then validates, shadows and deploys.