vril-labs/skill-jam/health-check-endpoints

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Health check endpoints for liveness, readiness, dependency monitoring. Use for Kubernetes, load balancers, auto-scaling, or encountering probe failures, startup delays, dependency checks, timeout configuration errors.

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SKILL.md

Health Check Endpoints

Implement health checks for monitoring service availability and readiness.

Probe Types

ProbePurposeFailure Action
LivenessIs process alive?Restart container
ReadinessCan handle traffic?Remove from LB
StartupHas app started?Delay other probes
DeepAll deps healthy?Trigger alerts

Implementation (Express)

javascript
class HealthChecker {
async checkDatabase() {
const start = Date.now();
try {
await db.query('SELECT 1');
return { status: 'healthy', latency: Date.now() - start };
} catch (err) {
return { status: 'unhealthy', error: String(err?.message || err) };
}
}
async checkRedis() {
try {
await redis.ping();
return { status: 'healthy' };
} catch (err) {
return { status: 'unhealthy', error: err.message };
}
}
async getReadiness() {
const checks = await Promise.all([
this.checkDatabase(),
this.checkRedis()
]);
const healthy = checks.every(c => c.status === 'healthy');
return { healthy, checks };
}
}
// Liveness - lightweight
app.get('/health/live', (req, res) => {
res.json({ status: 'ok', timestamp: new Date().toISOString() });
});
// Readiness - check dependencies
app.get('/health/ready', async (req, res) => {
const health = await healthChecker.getReadiness();
res.status(health.healthy ? 200 : 503).json(health);
});

Kubernetes Configuration

yaml
livenessProbe:
httpGet:
path: /health/live
port: 3000
initialDelaySeconds: 15
periodSeconds: 10
failureThreshold: 3
readinessProbe:
httpGet:
path: /health/ready
port: 3000
initialDelaySeconds: 5
periodSeconds: 10

Best Practices

  • Keep liveness checks minimal (no external deps)
  • Check only critical systems in readiness
  • Return 200 for healthy, 503 for unhealthy
  • Set reasonable timeouts to prevent cascading failures
  • Include response time metrics

Additional Implementations

See references/implementations.md for:

  • Python Flask complete health checker
  • Java Spring Boot Actuator
  • Full Kubernetes deployment config

Never Do

  • Make liveness depend on external services
  • Return 200 when dependencies are down
  • Skip dependency checks in readiness

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