Health monitoring

Overview

Often REST API will be situated behind a loadbalancer, which will require a monitor URL for its configuration. Having loadbalancer monitor actual REST end point, typically running on port 9000, will cause logsto become excessively noisy on one hand. On the other, configuring per-URL logging in QuestDB would have negative impact on server's latency. Instead we opted to create min HTTP server. It runs embedded and has its own log and thread pool configuration.

Usage

Out of box QuestDB will reply to any HTTP GET request to port 9003 with HTTP 200.

curl -v http://127.0.0.1:9003/hello

* Trying 127.0.0.1:9003...

* TCP_NODELAY set

* Connected to 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) port 9003 (#0)

> GET /hello HTTP/1.1

> Host: 127.0.0.1:9003

> User-Agent: curl/7.68.0

> Accept: */*

>

* Mark bundle as not supporting multiuse

< HTTP/1.1 200 OK

< Server: questDB/1.0

< Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2020 17:27:13 GMT

< Transfer-Encoding: chunked

< Content-Type: text/plain

<

* Connection #0 to host 127.0.0.1 left intact

/hello can be anything, the server will ignore the path

Configuration

The configuration section for the min HTTP server is available in the reference section.