Get status of external system and display on Confluence page

Andrew Cannell

I have a Confluence page that lists the status for a variety of different systems, just for an easily accessible summary page. Currently, this page needs to be updated manually with the status updates, but I'm wondering if there is a way to get this external system status and then have it display on the Confluence page?

I attempted to use Javascript (see below):

$( document ).ready(function() {
$.ajax
({
type: "GET",
url: "{url}",
dataType: 'json',
headers: {
"Authorization": "{authorization key}"
},
success: function(data){
var status = '${data.connection_status}'
document.getElementById("connectionStatus").value = status;
}
});
});

This should retrieve the status of the system, but unsurprisingly I run into a CORS error. I was expecting this, but just thought I'd give it a quick try.

With this is mind, are there any alternatives available? Whether methods, or the use of plugins (including paid) that would be able to help solve this issue?

Thomas Deiler_db00h3

Dear @Andrew Cannell ,

very pragmatic solution: collect the status information with a scripted cron job and update the page with the one REST API call.

So long

Thomas