file-healthchecker 0.1.1

Check health of static, long running applications using generated files.

file-healthchecker

Use this application to monitor your long running "non-web" application's health check.

Installation

pip

pip install file-healthchecker

Use Case

Lets say we have a service which needs to perform some action every x-duration. In python-world we would simply run it inside a while loop and invoke it every x-minutes.

Now define an environment var ENV_HEALTH_CHECK_FILE which will represent a file creation in case the app is healthy. for e.g. export ENV_HEALTH_CHECK_FILE=/tmp/myapp.is.healthy

This following snippet will perform following tasks:

• Every invocation of my_application will first remove a health-check file.
• Run the application
• NOTE: Raise an exception in case the application is failing. Handle it outside, as show in the given example.
• If no exception is raised, the decorator will create a file defined by the env-var ENV_HEALTH_CHECK_FILE

from file_healthchecker import decorator_success
import time

@decorator_success
def my_application():
    ... doing lots of work
    ... more work
    # in case of failure, raise exception
    return True

if __name__ == "__main__":
    while True:
        try:
            my_application()
        except Exception:
            pass
        time.sleep(10)

With the installation another cmd-app also gets installed - checkhealth.

How to check application's health?

• One can simply run ENV_HEALTH_CHECK_FILE=/tmp/myapp.is.healthy checkhealth at regular intervals or
• pass this command to orchestrators like Nomad, Kubernetes, etc. as a part of their health-check commands.

Current Stable Version

0.1.0

Development Installation

• Clone the project.
• Now install the application in editable mode and you are ready to start development

$ pip install -e .

Test

To run the tests:

make test

License

MIT