Go healthcheck

Go healthcheck is an opensource healthcheck system that ensures your HTTP applications are up and running.

Katacoda tutorial : https://www.katacoda.com/ghiltoniel/scenarios/2

Run

Create the docker-compose.yml file :

version: '3.1'
services:
  go-healthcheck:
    build: .
    image: ghiltoniel/go-healthcheck
    ports:
      - 8080:8080
    volumes:
      - ./config_docker.yml:/go/src/app/config.yml      
    environment:
      - DB.TYPE=sqlite3
      - DB.PATH=data.db

Then run :

    docker-compose up

Go to http://localhost:8080/app to see your dashboard

Configuration

The configuration can be set in any of the following places :

• config.yml file at the root of the source
• config.yml file inside %HOME%/.go-healthcheck/
• config.yml file in /etc/go-healthcheck/
• in the environment variables (using capitalize letters, ex : DB.TYPE=sqlite3)

Configuration variables

• history:
  • enabled: true if you want the check history to be saved into db, false if you want to keep only latest check
• db:
  • type: mysql / sqlite3 / postgres
  • username: the database username
  • password: the database password
  • host: the database host
  • port: the database port
  • name: the database name
  • path: the file database path (for sqlite3)
• smtp:
  • host: the smtp host
  • port: the smtp port
  • username: the smtp username
  • password: the smtp password
  • from: the from email field
  • to: the to email field for notification
• authentication:
  • enabled: is authentication enabled
  • username: the administrator username
  • password: the administrator password

TBD

• Notification by API calls
• Test coverage