go-healthz

This package provides an HTTP handler that returns information about the health status of the application. If the application is healthy and all the registered check pass, it returns a 200 OK HTTP status, otherwise, it fails with a 503 Service Unavailable. All responses contain a JSON encoded payload with information about the runtime system, current checks statuses and some configurable metadata.

Usage

package main

import (
	"errors"
	"net/http"
	"time"

	"github.com/MEDIGO/go-healthz"
)

const version = "1.0.0"

func main() {
	healthz.Set("version", version)

	healthz.Register("important_check", time.Second*5, func() error {
		return errors.New("fail fail fail")
	})

	http.Handle("/healthz", healthz.Handler())
	http.ListenAndServe(":8000", nil)
}

$ http GET localhost:8000/healthz
HTTP/1.1 503 Service Unavailable
Content-Length: 317
Content-Type: application/json
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 08:55:16 GMT

{
    "status": "Unavailable",
    "time": "2016-09-23T10:55:16.781538256+02:00",
    "since": "2016-09-23T10:55:14.268149643+02:00",
    "metadata": {
        "version": "1.0.0"
    },
    "failures": {
        "important_check": "fail fail fail"
    },
    "runtime": {
        "alloc_bytes": 314048,
        "arch": "amd64",
        "goroutines_count": 4,
        "heap_objects_count": 4575,
        "os": "darwin",
        "total_alloc_bytes": 314048,
        "version": "go1.7"
    }
}

Copyright and license

Copyright © 2016 MEDIGO GmbH.

go-healthz is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See LICENSE for the full license text.