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health

Name

health - enables a health check endpoint.

Description

By enabling health any plugin that implements it will be queried for it's health. The combined health is exported, by default, on port 8080/health .

Syntax

health [ADDRESS]

Optionally takes an address; the default is :8080. The health path is fixed to /health. The health endpoint returns a 200 response code and the word "OK" when CoreDNS is healthy. It returns a 503. health periodically (1s) polls plugin that exports health information. If any of the plugin signals that it is unhealthy, the server will go unhealthy too. Each plugin that supports health checks has a section "Health" in their README.

Plugins

Any plugin that implements the Healther interface will be used to report health.

Examples

Run another health endpoint on http://localhost:8091.

. {
    health localhost:8091
}