Health-checker for GTFS-RT

[clevercommute]

Are there any best practices or open source libraries which we can use to write a stand-alone health-checker for  GTFS-RT? 

As our infrastructure increasingly depends on this data source, we are looking for an automated way to 

(1) ensure that it is running/available

(2) proactively notify us if it's not

I imagine there are a range of potential options with a range of complexities. 

I'd even be open to 3rd party/hosted solutions.

[Sean Barbeau]

Hi,

I've listed all the GTFS Realtime open-source projects I know of here:

https://github.com/CUTR-at-USF/awesome-transit#gtfs-realtime

The closest I know of to a turn-key solution are the Munin and Nagio Plugins under the OneBusAway project umbrella:

* https://github.com/OneBusAway/onebusaway-gtfs-realtime-munin-plugin

* https://github.com/OneBusAway/onebusaway-gtfs-realtime-nagios-plugin

...but those are very dated at this point and I don't know if they are still usuable.

We built this Java project to run the gtfs-realtime-validator against a large number of feeds, fetching the URLs from OpenMobilityData.org (formerly TransitFeeds.com):

https://github.com/CUTR-at-USF/transit-feed-quality-calculator

I wrote an article about this here:

https://barbeau.medium.com/introducing-the-gtfs-realtime-validator-e1aae3185439

It could be converted to a monitoring tool without too many modifications.

Sean

Sean Barbeau

Center for Urban Transportation Research

University of South Florida

[clevercommute]

Thank you very much.