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 # python monitoring client
-arke is a python monitoring client i am currently working on to monitor http status and docker container runtime.
+arke is a dumb python monitoring client i am currently working on to monitor http status and docker container runtime.
 
 ### http status:
 - monitor znc server http status
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 ## structure
 - runtime file
-- vars file that points the client at my servers
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+- vars file that points the client at my servers
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+## TODO
+actually implement the following:
+- logging https://docs.python.org/2/library/logging.html - use this to dump data instead of doing my own stupid write function.
+- figure out how to remotely monitor processes from the monitoring host
+- figure out how to send data over to my mojo slack bot
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