BUG: Public API endpoint unknown to health monitoring alerts.

[adunkman]

Describe the Bug

There is no single Public API endpoint for the health endpoint which health alerts can be configured to monitor.

Business Impact/Reason for Severity

The Court Tech Lead needs to be notified when the application reports an unhealthy system status, and without a machine-readable endpoint, health alerts cannot be configured to send such notifications.

Similar to #6864, but for the public API.

In which environment did you see this bug?

https://stg.ef-cms.ustaxcourt.gov/health

Who were you logged in as?

N/A

What were you doing when you discovered this bug? (Using the application, demoing, smoke tests, testing other functionality, etc.)

Working on ustaxcourt#250.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to https://stg.ef-cms.ustaxcourt.gov/health
2. Observe there is no single API endpoint — there are two used, the UI accesses either:
   • https://public-api-green.stg.ef-cms.ustaxcourt.gov/public-api/health
   • https://public-api-blue.stg.ef-cms.ustaxcourt.gov/public-api/health

Expected Behavior

I expected the API to be accessible at https://public-api.stg.ef-cms.ustaxcourt.gov/

Actual Behavior

There are two API endpoints used, either public-api-blue.stg.ef-cms.ustaxcourt.gov or public-api-green.stg.ef-cms.ustaxcourt.gov. The UI has prior knowledge to determine which endpoint to access, which the configured Route53 Health Checks do not have.

Cause of Bug, If Known

The implementation of a blue/green deploy strategy removed this endpoint.

FOR ENGINEERING TEAM ONLY
Bug Resolution Steps:

• Determine why the bug wasn't caught by a test.
• Determine if an automated test needs to fixed, expanded or created. If unsure, bring in others to discuss.
• Determine if a manual test needs to be fixed, expanded or created. If unsure, bring in others to discuss.
• If needed, automated test is created.
• If needed, manual test is created.
• Reason for bug has been documented.
• Fix has been deployed to dev environment.
• Fix has been deployed to the stage environment.
• Bug has been tested in staging (UX or Engineering).

[codyseibert]

EOD update: I managed to get most of the terraform code deployed to exp1, now I need to verify it works.

[codyseibert]

To verify, you could go to https://public-api.dawson.flexion.us/public-api/health

[adunkman]

Implemented in #7177, not yet included in a PR to the Court’s repo.

Looks great! Thanks @codyseibert!