Commit ef174654 authored by Achilleas Pipinellis's avatar Achilleas Pipinellis

Merge branch 'health_check_docs' into 'master'

Add health check feature documentation

for https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/3888

@virtuacreative @axil 

See merge request !4199
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- [Git LFS configuration](workflow/lfs/lfs_administration.md)
- [Housekeeping](administration/housekeeping.md) Keep your Git repository tidy and fast.
- [GitLab Performance Monitoring](monitoring/performance/introduction.md) Configure GitLab and InfluxDB for measuring performance metrics
- [Monitoring uptime](monitoring/health_check.md) Check the server status using the health check endpoint
- [Sidekiq Troubleshooting](administration/troubleshooting/sidekiq.md) Debug when Sidekiq appears hung and is not processing jobs
- [High Availability](administration/high_availability/README.md) Configure multiple servers for scaling or high availability
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# Health Check
>**Note:** This feature was [introduced][ce-3888] in GitLab 8.8.
GitLab provides a health check endpoint for uptime monitoring on the `health_check` web
endpoint. The health check reports on the overall system status based on the status of
the database connection, the state of the database migrations, and the ability to write
and access the cache. This endpoint can be provided to uptime monitoring services like
[Pingdom][pingdom], [Nagios][nagios-health], and [NewRelic][newrelic-health].
## Access Token
An access token needs to be provided while accessing the health check endpoint. The current
accepted token can be found on the `admin/heath_check` page of your GitLab instance.
![access token](img/health_check_token.png)
The access token can be passed as a URL parameter:
```
https://gitlab.example.com/health_check.json?token=ACCESS_TOKEN
```
or as an HTTP header:
```bash
curl -H "TOKEN: ACCESS_TOKEN" https://gitlab.example.com/health_check.json
```
## Using the Endpoint
Once you have the access token, health information can be retrieved as plain text, JSON,
or XML using the `health_check` endpoint:
- `https://gitlab.example.com/health_check?token=ACCESS_TOKEN`
- `https://gitlab.example.com/health_check.json?token=ACCESS_TOKEN`
- `https://gitlab.example.com/health_check.xml?token=ACCESS_TOKEN`
You can also ask for the status of specific services:
- `https://gitlab.example.com/health_check/cache.json?token=ACCESS_TOKEN`
- `https://gitlab.example.com/health_check/database.json?token=ACCESS_TOKEN`
- `https://gitlab.example.com/health_check/migrations.json?token=ACCESS_TOKEN`
For example, the JSON output of the following health check:
```bash
curl -H "TOKEN: ACCESS_TOKEN" https://gitlab.example.com/health_check.json
```
would be like:
```
{"healthy":true,"message":"success"}
```
## Status
On failure, the endpoint will return a `500` HTTP status code. On success, the endpoint
will return a valid successful HTTP status code, and a `success` message. Ideally your
uptime monitoring should look for the success message.
[ce-3888]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/3888
[pingdom]: https://www.pingdom.com
[nagios-health]: https://nagios-plugins.org/doc/man/check_http.html
[newrelic-health]: https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/alerts/alert-policies/downtime-alerts/availability-monitoring
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