healthprobe

Healthprobe - An Node Express Module For Tracking Your Application Health

Healthprobe is node component built to test and return the health status of your node app. This component verifies the health of downstream components like REST Services, MongoDB connections and returns an aggregate health status.

Basic Requirements

The downstream REST services should return the health status in the given format for this module to work.

-- For Service Up & Running

HTTP STATUS CODE : 200 OK
{
    "status" : "AVAILABLE",
    "timestamp" : "Wed Mar 15 08:44:37 GMT 2017"
}

-- For Service Down

HTTP STATUS CODE : 503 Service Unavailable
{
    "status" : "UNAVAILABLE",
    "timestamp" : "Wed Mar 15 08:44:37 GMT 2017"
}

Usage

var healthprobe = require('healthprobe');
var app = express();
 
var configuration = [
{
    serviceName: 'Rest Service 1',
    type: 'REST',
    healthCheckURI: 'https://xyz.com/service/healthcheck',
    auth: 'Basic abcdef'
},
{
    serviceName: 'Rest Service 2',
    type: 'REST',
    healthCheckURI: 'https://def.com/service/healthcheck',
    auth: 'Basic abcdef'
}
];
 
//time interval between healthprobe in seconds
var interval = 10;
 
app.use('/healthcheck', healthprobe(configuration, interval));

Parameters

healthprobe(configuration, interval, logger);

Parameter	Required	Description
configuration	Yes	Array containing various services for which health has to be verified.
interval	No	Time interval between health probes in seconds. The scheduler would make healthcheck on this interval. Defaults to 30 seconds.
logger	No	Supply your custom logger for logging the health check probes to downstream services. Defaults to console.log.

Configuration

-- REST

{
    serviceName: 'Rest Service 1',
    type: 'REST',
    healthCheckURI: 'https://xyz.com/service/healthcheck',
    auth: 'Basic abcdef'
}

-- MONGODB (Mongoose)

{
    serviceName: 'MongoDB',
    type: 'MONGO',
    dbConnection: mongoose.connection.db
}

-- MONGODB (Native)

{
    serviceName: 'MongoDB',
    type: 'MONGO',
    dbConnection: db
}

Key	Description
serviceName	Name of the service, this would be retured as part of the response also
type	REST or MONGO
healthCheckURI	URL for getting the health check status of downstream services. To be used only for REST type
dbConnection	The db object for getting health status of Mongo Connection. If using mongoose, pass mongoose.connection.db . To be used only for MONGO type

Sample Response

HTTP STATUS CODE : 200 OK
{
    "status": "AVAILABLE",
    "timestamp": "2017-03-15T09:22:13.526Z",
    "message": "All the components are up and running - Uptime : 57 sec",
    "services": [
    {
        "service": "Rest Service 1",
        "response": {
        "status": "AVAILABLE",
        "timestamp": "Wed Mar 15 09:22:58 GMT 2017"
        }
    },
    {
    "service": "Rest Service 2",
    "response": {
    "status": "AVAILABLE",
    "timestamp": "Wed Mar 15 09:22:58 GMT 2017"
        }
    },
    {
    "service": "MongoDB",
    "response": {
    "status": "AVAILABLE",
    "timestamp": "2017-03-15T09:23:00.531Z"
        }
    }
    ]
}

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2017 Ved Agarwal

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