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Miek Gieben 48059a6c3e Overloaded (#1364)
* plugin/health: add 'overloaded metrics'

Query our on health endpoint and record (and export as a metric) the
time it takes. The Get has a 5s timeout, that, when reached, will set
the metric duration to 5s. The actually call "I'm I overloaded" is left
to an external entity.

* README

* golint and govet

* and the tests
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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.
## Metrics
If monitoring is enabled (via the *prometheus* directive) then the following metric is exported:
* `coredns_health_request_duration_seconds{}` - duration to process a /health query. As this should
be a local operation it should be fast. A (large) increases in this duration indicates the
CoreDNS process is having trouble keeping up.
## Examples
Run another health endpoint on http://localhost:8091.
~~~ corefile
. {
health localhost:8091
}
~~~