This application consumes the Planetside 2 Event Streaming API to track the number of online players per outfit, server and faction.
To achieve this without unduly hammering the official API we cache the information about which outfit a character belongs to and data mapping character and outfit ids to their respective name.
Finally we expose the relevant metrics for ingestion by a Prometheus server.
This application provides the data for ps2.li
At the very least you need a PostgreSQL database (9.5+) and a registered service id for the Census API.
ps2onlinetracker is exclusively configured with environment variables;
| Variable | Example value | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| DB_CONN | postgres://user:password@localhost/dbname?sslmode=disable | SQL connection string |
| METRICS_LISTEN | localhost:8080 | Listen address for the metrics webserver |
| SERVICE_ID | myid | Your service id to access Census API |
Setup tables and enter some static data with the included tables.sql before running ps2onlinetracker.
To run with systemd, see the included service file.
You need Golang, I have only tested builds with v1.10.
go get ./...
go build ./cmd/ps2onlinetracker/