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# health
## Name
*health* - enables a health check endpoint.
## Description
Enabled process wide health endpoint. When CoreDNS is up and running this returns a 200 OK HTTP
status code. The 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 this server is healthy.
An extra option can be set with this extended syntax:
~~~
health [ADDRESS] {
lameduck DURATION
}
~~~
* Where `lameduck` will make the process unhealthy then *wait* for **DURATION** before the process
shuts down.
If you have multiple Server Blocks, *health* can only be enabled in one of them (as it is process
wide). If you really need multiple endpoints, you must run health endpoints on different ports:
~~~ corefile
com {
whoami
health :8080
}
net {
erratic
health :8081
}
~~~
Doing this is supported but both endpoints ":8080" and ":8081" will export the exact same health.
## Metrics
If monitoring is enabled (via the *prometheus* plugin) then the following metric is exported:
* `coredns_health_request_duration_seconds{}` - duration to process a HTTP query to the local
`/health` endpoint. As this a local operation it should be fast. A (large) increase in this
duration indicates the CoreDNS process is having trouble keeping up with its query load.
Note that this metric *does not* have a `server` label, because being overloaded is a symptom of
the running process, *not* a specific server.
## Examples
Run another health endpoint on http://localhost:8091.
~~~ corefile
. {
health localhost:8091
}
~~~
Set a lameduck duration of 1 second:
~~~ corefile
. {
health localhost:8092 {
lameduck 1s
}
}
~~~