SteamMonitor is a console application that continuously monitors Steam connection manager servers. Steam CM is a server that the Steam desktop clients connect to.

It maintains connections to a few servers in every available datacenter, and whenever it gets disconnected, the status gets updated in the MySQL database (see schema.sql for the table definition).

Database access is configured by creating a database.txt file in the application directory containing your MySQL connection string.

steamstat.us uses this database to display status of the servers per region.