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coredns/plugin/health/README.md
Miek Gieben acbcad7b4e reload: use OnRestart (#1709)
* reload: use OnRestart

Close the listener on OnRestart for health and metrics so the default
setup function can setup the listener when the plugin is "starting up".

Lightly test with some SIGUSR1-ing. Also checked the reload plugin with
this, seems fine:

.com.:1043
.:1043
2018/04/20 15:01:25 [INFO] CoreDNS-1.1.1
2018/04/20 15:01:25 [INFO] linux/amd64, go1.10,
CoreDNS-1.1.1
linux/amd64, go1.10,
2018/04/20 15:01:25 [INFO] Running configuration MD5 = aa8b3f03946fb60546ca1f725d482714
2018/04/20 15:02:01 [INFO] Reloading
2018/04/20 15:02:01 [INFO] Running configuration MD5 = b34a96d99e01db4015a892212560155f
2018/04/20 15:02:01 [INFO] Reloading complete
^C2018/04/20 15:02:06 [INFO] SIGINT: Shutting down

With this corefile:
.com {
  proxy . 127.0.0.1:53
  prometheus :9054
  whoami
  reload
}

. {
  proxy . 127.0.0.1:53
  prometheus :9054
  whoami
  reload
}

The prometheus port was 9053, changed that to 54 so reload would pick it
up.

From a cursory look it seems this also fixes:
Fixes #1604 #1618 #1686 #1492

* At least make it test

* Use onfinalshutdown

* reload: add reload test

This test #1604 adn right now fails.

* Address review comments

* Add bug section explaining things a bit

* compile tests

* Fix tests

* fixes

* slightly less crazy

* try to make prometheus setup less confusing

* Use ephermal port for test

* Don't use the listener

* These are shared between goroutines, just use the boolean in the main
  structure.
* Fix text in the reload README,
* Set addr to TODO once stopping it
* Morph fturb's comment into test, to test reload and scrape health and
  metric endpoint
2018-04-21 17:43:02 +01:00

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health

Name

health - enables a health check endpoint.

Description

By enabling health any plugin that implements healt.Healther interface 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 this server is healthy. It returns a 503. health periodically (1s) polls plugins that exports health information. If any of the plugins signals that it is unhealthy, the server will go unhealthy too. Each plugin that supports health checks has a section "Health" in their README.

More options 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 and need to export health for each of the plugins, you must run health endpoints on different ports:

com {
    whoami
    health :8080
}

net {
    erratic
    health :8081
}

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 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.

. {
    health localhost:8091
}

Set a lameduck duration of 1 second:

. {
    health localhost:8092 {
        lameduck 1s
    }
}