Checking if a URL is up/responding

Question

We are currently moving all of our documentation from mediawiki to confluence and I am having a bit of trouble finding a way to move over some URL checking that we have.

On our mediawiki pages we have a table of app URL's and a script which is applied to the link which tells us if the page is up or down using curl to check if the URL is responding and looking for a 200 http response. A 200 turns things green anything else is red.

I am trying to find a way to migrate the same function to our confluence pages, I have had a play around with tables using iframes for the pages so you can see if they are loading but it is very messy and hard to follow.

I have also found "Application Monitoring by AGIL4YOU" which would give us an up or down status but just wanted to find out if there was a way to do this without having to add any extensions ?

Barbara Szczesniak · Answer

@Mark Saunders Or maybe you talking about having something on your Confluence pages to indicate when URLs in some apps outside of Confluence are up or down?

Kristian Klima_gtcuat · Answer

Hi @Mark Saunders and welcome.

I'm not sure I understand the issue here, with Confluence, if your space is accessible to anonymous users, then by definition all pages (their links) are live (up).

You can deploy sophisticated workflows and publishing process using Atlassian Marketplace apps (add ons for you Confluence) which would allow you to have pages that are live and not live.

If it's about links, there are apps that check the links you have on your pages - for example Scroll Content Quality which we're using.

There's also Link Management for Confluence.

Pls, elaborate, this is an interesting point of view.