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Library to provide server health information via a HTTP server endpoint for express, restify, hapi, and vanilla http
https://github.com/augusthome/server-health

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Library to provide server health information via a HTTP server endpoint for express, restify, hapi, and vanilla http

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# Server Health

[![NPM](https://nodei.co/npm/server-health.png?downloads=true)](https://nodei.co/npm/server-health/)

Allows to easily add a `/health` endpoint to a Fastify, Restify, Express, Hapi
or native node http server returning vital information about a service.

## Example output

```json
{
"status": "ok", // overall server status
"uptime": 3714, // uptime in seconds
"upSince": "2017-05-12T03:13:06.462Z",
"service": { // package.json meta data
"name": "foobarbaz-server",
"description": "Foo Bar Baz Server",
"version": "0.14.0",
"repository": {
"type": "git",
"url": "[email protected]:foobarbaz-server.git"
}
},
"connections": { // plugable connection checks
"mongodb": "ok",
"redis": "ok",
"rabbitmq": "ok"
},
"env": {
"nodeEnv": "local",
"nodeVersion": "v0.10.37",
"processName": "foobarbazd",
"pid": 10329,
"cwd": "/Users/example/foobarbaz-server"
},
"git": {
"commitHash": "c5d7c311ac8b5de7e309e18b821225d471c2cf1d",
"branchName": "server-health-integration",
"tag": null
}
}
```

## Usage

### Adding the /health endpoint to a restify server

See example/server.js for a complete example. Also check the tests for how to use this with hapi and express.

```js
const restify = require('restify');
const serverHealth = require('server-health');

serverHealth.addConnectionCheck('database', function () {
// determine whether database connection is up and functional
return true;
});
serverHealth.addConnectionCheck('rabbitmq', function () {
// determine whether RabbitMQ connection is up and functional
return true;
});
serverHealth.addConnectionCheck('redis', function () {
// determine whether Redis connection is up and functional
return true;
});
const server = restify.createServer();
serverHealth.exposeHealthEndpoint(server);
server.listen(8080, function() {
console.log('Listening on port 8080');
});
```

For frameworks other than restify (default) specify the used framework:

```js
const fastify = require('fastify');

const server = fastify();
serverHealth.exposeHealthEndpoint(server, '/health', 'fastify');
server.listen({port: 8080}, function() {
console.log('Listening on port 8080');
});
```

### Querying from the command line

After adding the server info health endpoint to a service you can do a quick check
on its status using `curl` and `jq`:

```bash
> curl -s http://localhost:8080/health | jq '.status'
"ok"
```

### Filtering the response directly

Instead of filtering the whole response on the client the library also supports
filtering server side by specifying a "filter" query string parameter.

Multiple properties can be queried by separating them by comma: `filter=status,env.nodeEnv`

```bash
> curl -s http://localhost:8080/health?filter=status
{"status":"ok"}
```

### Standalone Node Http Health Check Server

For services that do not have an existing Restify, Express, or Hapi Server, you can create a
native Node HTTP Server that only has one route, that also provides the same health
checks as Restify, Express, and Hapi servers.

```javascript
const serverHealth = require('server-health');
serverHealth.addConnectionCheck('database', function () {
// determine whether database connection is up and functional
return true;
});
const options = {
endpoint: '/health', // optional and will default to `/health`
};
const nodeServer = serverHealth.createNodeHttpHealthCheckServer(options);
nodeServer.listen(8080);
```