Django - container healthchecks

[pydis-bot]

Originally posted by Johannes Christ:

In case something breaks that's causing the server to become irresponsive, we likely won't notice because uWSGI will keep running.

However, we could use Docker healthchecks to issue requests to the server on various endpoints (e.g. regular HTML endpoints, endpoints interacting with the database and so forth). This should ideally be written in Python (since that comes preinstalled in the container) and be dependency-free, since it runs in the production container.

This is a good first issue - if you have any questions or want more information, don't be afraid to ask!

[jhtimmins]

I'm interested in taking this issue on. Do I need to do anything special to do so? I haven't worked on any issues yet w/ python-discord.

[MarkKoz]

You can just go ahead and start working on it! To set up the development environment, read this guide.

[MarkKoz]

Opening a work in progress pull request would be nice. To do that, prefix your PR's title with WIP: .

[spnarkdnark]

is this issue still open? i'd like to try my hand at contributing.

[GhostofGoes]

@spnarkdnark Yes, it is!

[spnarkdnark]

@GhostofGoes are you available to answer a few questions on the discord re: this issue sometime today? I've been reading into Docker / Healthchecks trying to gain an understanding, but am confused by the wording in the opening of the issue, and I don't want to clutter this feed with the questions.

[lemonsaurus]

This is probably still relevant, but needs a better specification. I also don't agree that this is a good first issue, I think this should be handled by the @python-discord/devops team. I'm gonna close this issue and we can create a new one with a better specification once we're done designing the monitoring solution.