RtHealthMonitor

Get information about your applications health status easily.

As soon as the gem is configured and your application is running, you can access a health monitor status, e.g. http://example.com/health_monitor

This would produce the following output:

{
  "status": "down",
  "name": "my service",
  "simple": [
    {
      "status": "up",
      "name": "MySQL",
      "time": 0.2758502960205078
    },
    {
      "status": "up",
      "name": "Memcached",
      "time": 1.4078617095947266
    }
  ],
  "service": [
    {
      "status": "up",
      "name": "another service",
      "info": {
        "simple": [
          {
            "status": "up",
            "name": "MongoDB",
            "time": 6.000041961669922
          },
          {
            "status": "up",
            "name": "MySQL",
            "time": 0
          }
        ]
      },
      "time": 23.989439010620117
    }
  ]
}

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'rt_health_monitor', require: 'health_monitor'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install rt_health_monitor

Add the middleware to your Rails configuration

module <ApplicationName>
  class Application < Rails::Application
    config.middleware.use ::HealthMonitorMiddleware, "your_application_name"
  end
end

Add the middleware to your config.ru

use HealthMonitorMiddleware, "your_application_name"

Add the middleware to config/apps.rb

Padrino.use(HealthMonitorMiddleware, "your_application_name")

Put the following configurations some place where they are loaded on startup, like config/initializer/health_monitor_initializer.rb

These can be used to monitor a database connection or anything that can be in two states.

Example:

HealthMonitorMiddleware.add("simple", name: "MySQL") do
  ActiveRecord::Base.connected?
end

These can be used to monitor another service that is also using this gem. The block needs to return the result of the /health_monitor endpoint of the other service:

HealthMonitorMiddleware.add("service", name: 'some_service_name') do
  RestClient.get("https://some-service.example.com/health_monitor")
end

A task for performing a Sidekiq health check is also included. To use that, just add the following line to your Rakefile

require "health_monitor/rake_task"

You must have an environment task in your Rakefile which loads the environment. Rails already provides such a task.

A simple environment task looks like this:

task :environment do
  require_relative "./config/environment" if File.exists?("./config/environment")
end

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/runtastic/rt_health_monitor. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the code of conduct.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.