sidekiq-err

Report the status of your sidekiq system

This gem provides a binary sidekiq-err to enumerate the state of a running sidekiq system.

Heavily inspired by sidekiqctl, sadly removed in sidekiq v6 - RIP.

This binary will return a 0 exit code if it detects a sidekiq process and a non-zero exit code if no sidekiq process is running.

The above can be used in combination with a Kubernetes liveness probe as it returns non zero exit code if sidekiq is not running, e.g.

livenessProbe:
  exec:
    command:
      - sidekiq-err --alive $HOSTNAME

$HOSTNAME env var in a pod correlates to the default name that Sidekiq uses to identify the sever processes.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'sidekiq-err'

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install sidekiq-err

This gem depends on your Sidekiq setup, e.g. REDIS_URL etc, please ensure this is configured correctly https://github.com/mperham/sidekiq/wiki/Using-Redis

$ sidekiq-err --alive expected-process-name

This returns a non-zero exit code if sidekiq isn't running or Redis not available

$ sidekiq-err --report

$ sidekiq-err --report all

$ sidekiq-err --help

# build the test container image
docker-compose build
# launch a container to run the gem cmd against a live sidekiq system (see docker-compose.yml for server)
docker-compose up

Alternatively

# get a bash session in the docker container
docker-compose run --rm sidekiq-err bash

Then, run bundle exec rspec or rake spec to run the tests.

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/camallen/sidekiq-err. 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.

Everyone interacting in the sidekiq-err project's codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the code of conduct.