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go-sundheit
A library built to provide support for defining service health for golang services. It allows you to register async health checks for your dependencies and the service itself, and provides a health endpoint that exposes their status.
What's go-sundheit?
The project is named after the German word Gesundheit which means ‘health’, and it is pronounced /ɡəˈzʊntˌhaɪ̯t/.
Installation
Using go modules:
go get github.com/AppsFlyer/go-sundheit@v0.4.0
Usage
import (
"net/http"
"time"
"log"
"github.com/pkg/errors"
"github.com/AppsFlyer/go-sundheit"
healthhttp "github.com/AppsFlyer/go-sundheit/http"
"github.com/AppsFlyer/go-sundheit/checks"
)
func main() {
// create a new health instance
h := gosundheit.New()
// define an HTTP dependency check
httpCheckConf := checks.HTTPCheckConfig{
CheckName: "httpbin.url.check",
Timeout: 1 * time.Second,
// dependency you're checking - use your own URL here...
// this URL will fail 50% of the times
URL: "http://httpbin.org/status/200,300",
}
// create the HTTP check for the dependency
// fail fast when you misconfigured the URL. Don't ignore errors!!!
httpCheck, err := checks.NewHTTPCheck(httpCheckConf)
if err != nil {
fmt.Println(err)
return // your call...
}
// Alternatively panic when creating a check fails
httpCheck = checks.Must(checks.NewHTTPCheck(httpCheckConf))
err = h.RegisterCheck(
httpCheck,
gosundheit.InitialDelay(time.Second), // the check will run once after 1 sec
gosundheit.ExecutionPeriod(10 * time.Second), // the check will be executed every 10 sec
)
if err != nil {
fmt.Println("Failed to register check: ", err)
return // or whatever
}
// define more checks...
// register a health endpoint
http.Handle("/admin/health.json", healthhttp.HandleHealthJSON(h))
// serve HTTP
log.Fatal(http.ListenAndServe(":8080", nil))
}
Using Option to Configure Health Service
To create a health service, it's simple as calling the following code:
gosundheit.New(options ...Option)
The optional parameters of options allows the user to configure the Health Service by passing configuration functions (implementing Option signature).
All options are marked with the prefix WithX. Available options:
WithCheckListeners- enables you to act on check registration, start and completed eventsWithHealthListeners- enables you to act on changes in the health service results
Built-in Checks
The library comes with a set of built-in checks. Currently implemented checks are as follows:
HTTP built-in check
The HTTP check allows you to trigger an HTTP request to one of your dependencies, and verify the response status, and optionally the content of the response body. Example was given above in the usage section
DNS built-in check(s)
The DNS checks allow you to perform lookup to a given hostname / domain name / CNAME / etc, and validate that it resolves to at least the minimum number of required results.
Creating a host lookup check is easy:
// Schedule a host resolution check for `example.com`, requiring at least one results, and running every 10 sec
h.RegisterCheck(
checks.NewHostResolveCheck("example.com", 1),
gosundheit.ExecutionPeriod(10 * time.Second),
)
You may also use the low level checks.NewResolveCheck specifying a custom LookupFunc if you want to to perform other kinds of lookups.
For example you may register a reverse DNS lookup check like so:
func ReverseDNLookup(ctx context.Context, addr string) (resolvedCount int, err error) {
names, err := net.DefaultResolver.LookupAddr(ctx, addr)
resolvedCount = len(names)
return
}
//...
h.RegisterCheck(
checks.NewResolveCheck(ReverseDNLookup, "127.0.0.1", 3),
gosundheit.ExecutionPeriod(10 * time.Second),
gosundheit.ExecutionTimeout(1*time.Second)
)
Ping built-in check(s)
The ping checks allow you to verifies that a resource is still alive and reachable.
For example, you can use it as a DB ping check (sql.DB implements the Pinger interface):
db, err := sql.Open(...)
dbCheck, err := checks.NewPingCheck("db.check", db)
_ = h.RegisterCheck(&gosundheit.Config{
Check: dbCheck,
// ...
})
You can also use the ping check to test a generic connection like so:
pinger := checks.NewDialPinger("tcp", "example.com")
pingCheck, err := checks.NewPingCheck("example.com.reachable", pinger)
h.RegisterCheck(pingCheck)
The NewDialPinger function supports all the network/address parameters supported by the net.Dial() function(s)
Custom Checks
The library provides 2 means of defining a custom check.
The bottom line is that you need an implementation of the Check interface:
// Check is the API for defining health checks.
// A valid check has a non empty Name() and a check (Execute()) function.
type Check interface {
// Name is the name of the check.
// Check names must be metric compatible.
Name() string
// Execute runs a single time check, and returns an error when the check fails, and an optional details object.
Execute() (details interface{}, err error)
}
See examples in the following 2 sections below.
Use the CustomCheck struct
The checksCustomCheck struct implements the checks.Check interface,
and is the simplest way to implement a check if all you need is to define a check function.
Let's define a check function that fails 50% of the times:
func lotteryCheck() (details interface{}, err error) {
lottery := rand.Float32()
details = fmt.Sprintf("lottery=%f", lottery)
if lottery < 0.5 {
err = errors.New("Sorry, I failed")
}
return
}
Now we register the check to start running right away, and execute once per 2 minutes with a timeout of 5 seconds:
h := gosundheit.New()
...
h.RegisterCheck(
&checks.CustomCheck{
CheckName: "lottery.check",
CheckFunc: lotteryCheck,
},
gosundheit.InitialDelay(0),
gosundheit.ExecutionPeriod(2 * time.Minute),
gosundheit.ExecutionTimeout(5 * time.Second)
)
Implement the Check interface
Sometimes you need to define a more elaborate custom check.
For example when you need to manage state.
For these cases it's best to implement the Check interface yourself.
Let's define a flexible example of the lottery check, that allows you to define a fail probability:
type Lottery struct {
myname string
probability float32
}
func (l Lottery) Execute() (details interface{}, err error) {
lottery := rand.Float32()
details = fmt.Sprintf("lottery=%f", lottery)
if lottery < l.probability {
err = errors.New("Sorry, I failed")
}
return
}
func (l Lottery) Name() string {
return l.myname
}
And register our custom check, scheduling it to run every 30 seconds (after a 1 second initial delay) with a 5 seconds timeout:
h := gosundheit.New()
...
h.RegisterCheck(
Lottery{myname: "custom.lottery.check", probability:0.3},
gosundheit.InitialDelay(1*time.Second),
gosundheit.ExecutionPeriod(30*time.Second),
gosundheit.ExecutionTimeout(5*time.Second),
)
Custom Checks Notes
- If a check take longer than the specified rate period, then next execution will be delayed, but will not be concurrently executed.
- Checks must complete within a reasonable time. If a check doesn't complete or gets hung, the next check execution will be delayed. Use proper time outs.
- Checks must respect the provided context. Specifically, a check must abort its execution, and return an error, if the context has been cancelled.
- A health-check name must be a metric name compatible string
(i.e. no funky characters, and spaces allowed - just make it simple like
clicks-db-check). See here: https://help.datadoghq.com/hc/en-us/articles/203764705-What-are-valid-metric-names-
Expose Health Endpoint
The library provides an HTTP handler function for serving health stats in JSON format. You can register it using your favorite HTTP implementation like so:
http.Handle("/admin/health.json", healthhttp.HandleHealthJSON(h))
The endpoint can be called like so:
~ $ curl -i http://localhost:8080/admin/health.json
HTTP/1.1 503 Service Unavailable
Content-Type: application/json
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 09:31:46 GMT
Content-Length: 701
{
"custom.lottery.check": {
"message": "lottery=0.206583",
"error": {
"message": "Sorry, I failed"
},
"timestamp": "2019-01-22T11:31:44.632415432+02:00",
"num_failures": 2,
"first_failure_time": "2019-01-22T11:31:41.632400256+02:00"
},
"lottery.check": {
"message": "lottery=0.865335",
"timestamp": "2019-01-22T11:31:44.63244047+02:00",
"num_failures": 0,
"first_failure_time": null
},
"url.check": {
"message": "http://httpbin.org/status/200,300",
"error": {
"message": "unexpected status code: '300' expected: '200'"
},
"timestamp": "2019-01-22T11:31:44.632442937+02:00",
"num_failures": 4,
"first_failure_time": "2019-01-22T11:31:38.632485339+02:00"
}
}
Or for the shorter version:
~ $ curl -i http://localhost:8080/admin/health.json?type=short
HTTP/1.1 503 Service Unavailable
Content-Type: application/json
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 09:40:19 GMT
Content-Length: 105
{
"custom.lottery.check": "PASS",
"lottery.check": "PASS",
"my.check": "FAIL",
"url.check": "PASS"
}
The short response type is suitable for the consul health checks / LB heath checks.
The response code is 200 when the tests pass, and 503 when they fail.
CheckListener
It is sometimes desired to keep track of checks execution and apply custom logic. For example, you may want to add logging, or external metrics to your checks, or add some trigger some recovery logic when a check fails after 3 consecutive times.
The gosundheit.CheckListener interface allows you to hook this custom logic.
For example, lets add a logging listener to our health repository:
type checkEventsLogger struct{}
func (l checkEventsLogger) OnCheckRegistered(name string, res gosundheit.Result) {
log.Printf("Check %q registered with initial result: %v\n", name, res)
}
func (l checkEventsLogger) OnCheckStarted(name string) {
log.Printf("Check %q started...\n", name)
}
func (l checkEventsLogger) OnCheckCompleted(name string, res gosundheit.Result) {
log.Printf("Check %q completed with result: %v\n", name, res)
}
To register your listener:
h := gosundheit.New(gosundheit.WithCheckListeners(&checkEventsLogger))
Please note that your CheckListener implementation must not block!
HealthListener
It is something desired to track changes in registered checks results. For example, you may want to log the amount of results monitored, or send metrics on these results.
The gosundheit.HealthListener interface allows you to hook this custom logic.
For example, lets add a logging listener:
type healthLogger struct{}
func (l healthLogger) OnResultsUpdated(results map[string]Result) {
log.Printf("There are %d results, general health is %t\n", len(results), allHealthy(results))
}
To register your listener:
h := gosundheit.New(gosundheit.WithHealthListeners(&checkHealthLogger))
Metrics
The library can expose metrics using a CheckListener. At the moment, OpenCensus is available and exposes the following metrics:
health/check_status_by_name- An aggregated health status gauge (0/1 for fail/pass) at the time of sampling. The aggregation uses the following tags:check=allChecks- all checks aggregationcheck=<check-name>- specific check aggregation
health/check_count_by_name_and_status- Aggregated pass/fail counts for checks, with the following tags:check=allChecks- all checks aggregationcheck=<check-name>- specific check aggregationcheck-passing=[true|false]
health/executeTime- The time it took to execute a checks. Using the following tag:check=<check-name>- specific check aggregation
The views can be registered like so:
import (
"github.com/AppsFlyer/go-sundheit"
"github.com/AppsFlyer/go-sundheit/opencensus"
"go.opencensus.io/stats/view"
)
// This listener can act both as check and health listener for reporting metrics
oc := opencensus.NewMetricsListener()
h := gosundheit.New(gosundheit.WithCheckListeners(oc), gosundheit.WithHealthListeners(oc))
// ...
view.Register(opencensus.DefaultHealthViews...)
// or register individual views. For example:
view.Register(opencensus.ViewCheckExecutionTime, opencensus.ViewCheckStatusByName, ...)
Classification
It is sometimes required to report metrics for different check types (e.g. setup, liveness, readiness).
To report metrics using classification tag - it's possible to initialize the OpenCensus listener with classification:
// startup
opencensus.NewMetricsListener(opencensus.WithStartupClassification())
// liveness
opencensus.NewMetricsListener(opencensus.WithLivenessClassification())
// readiness
opencensus.NewMetricsListener(opencensus.WithReadinessClassification())
// custom
opencensus.NewMetricsListener(opencensus.WithClassification("custom"))
Documentation
¶
Index ¶
Constants ¶
const (
// ValAllChecks is the value used for the check tags when tagging all tests
ValAllChecks = "all_checks"
)
Variables ¶
This section is empty.
Functions ¶
This section is empty.
Types ¶
type Check ¶ added in v0.4.0
type Check interface {
// Name is the name of the check.
// Check names must be metric compatible.
Name() string
// Execute runs a single time check, and returns an error when the check fails, and an optional details object.
// The function is expected to exit as soon as the provided Context is Done.
Execute(ctx context.Context) (details interface{}, err error)
}
Check is the API for defining health checks. A valid check has a non empty Name() and a check (Execute()) function.
type CheckListener ¶ added in v0.1.0
type CheckListener interface {
// OnCheckRegistered is called when the check with the specified name has registered.
// Result argument is for reporting the first run state of the check
OnCheckRegistered(name string, result Result)
// OnCheckStarted is called when a check with the specified name has started
OnCheckStarted(name string)
// OnCheckCompleted is called when the check with the specified name has completed it's execution.
// The results are passed as an argument
OnCheckCompleted(name string, result Result)
}
CheckListener can be used to gain check stats or log check transitions. Implementations of this interface **must not block!** If an implementation blocks, it may result in delayed execution of other health checks down the line. It's OK to log in the implementation and it's OK to add metrics, but it's not OK to run anything that takes long time to complete such as network IO etc.
type CheckListeners ¶ added in v0.3.0
type CheckListeners []CheckListener
func (CheckListeners) OnCheckCompleted ¶ added in v0.3.0
func (c CheckListeners) OnCheckCompleted(name string, result Result)
func (CheckListeners) OnCheckRegistered ¶ added in v0.3.0
func (c CheckListeners) OnCheckRegistered(name string, result Result)
func (CheckListeners) OnCheckStarted ¶ added in v0.3.0
func (c CheckListeners) OnCheckStarted(name string)
type CheckOption ¶ added in v0.4.0
type CheckOption interface {
// contains filtered or unexported methods
}
CheckOption configures a health check using the functional options paradigm popularized by Rob Pike and Dave Cheney. If you're unfamiliar with this style, see: - https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2014/01/self-referential-functions-and-design.html - https://dave.cheney.net/2014/10/17/functional-options-for-friendly-apis. - https://sagikazarmark.hu/blog/functional-options-on-steroids/
func ExecutionTimeout ¶ added in v0.4.0
func ExecutionTimeout(d time.Duration) CheckOption
ExecutionTimeout sets the timeout of the check. It is up to the check to respect the timeout, which is provided via the Context argument of `Check.Execute` method. Defaults to no timeout
type Health ¶
type Health interface {
// RegisterCheck registers a health check according to the given configuration.
// Once RegisterCheck() is called, the check is scheduled to run in it's own goroutine.
// Callers must make sure the checks complete at a reasonable time frame, or the next execution will delay.
RegisterCheck(check Check, opts ...CheckOption) error
// Deregister removes a health check from this instance, and stops it's next executions.
// If the check is running while Deregister() is called, the check may complete it's current execution.
// Once a check is removed, it's results are no longer returned.
Deregister(name string)
// Results returns a snapshot of the health checks execution results at the time of calling, and the current health.
// A system is considered healthy iff all checks are passing
Results() (results map[string]Result, healthy bool)
// IsHealthy returns the current health of the system.
// A system is considered healthy iff all checks are passing.
IsHealthy() bool
// DeregisterAll Deregister removes all health checks from this instance, and stops their next executions.
// It is equivalent of calling Deregister() for each currently registered check.
DeregisterAll()
}
Health is the API for registering / deregistering health checks, and for fetching the health checks results.
type HealthListener ¶ added in v0.3.0
type HealthListeners ¶ added in v0.3.0
type HealthListeners []HealthListener
func (HealthListeners) OnResultsUpdated ¶ added in v0.3.0
func (h HealthListeners) OnResultsUpdated(results map[string]Result)
type HealthOption ¶ added in v0.4.0
type HealthOption interface {
// contains filtered or unexported methods
}
HealthOption configures a health checker using the functional options paradigm popularized by Rob Pike and Dave Cheney. If you're unfamiliar with this style, see: - https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2014/01/self-referential-functions-and-design.html - https://dave.cheney.net/2014/10/17/functional-options-for-friendly-apis. - https://sagikazarmark.hu/blog/functional-options-on-steroids/
func WithCheckListeners ¶ added in v0.3.0
func WithCheckListeners(listener ...CheckListener) HealthOption
WithCheckListeners allows you to listen to check start/end events
func WithDefaults ¶ added in v0.3.0
func WithDefaults() HealthOption
WithDefaults sets all the Health object settings. It's not required to use this as no options is always default This is a simple placeholder for any future defaults
func WithHealthListeners ¶ added in v0.3.0
func WithHealthListeners(listener ...HealthListener) HealthOption
WithHealthListeners allows you to listen to overall results change
type Option ¶ added in v0.3.0
type Option interface {
HealthOption
CheckOption
}
Option configures a health checker or a health check using the functional options paradigm popularized by Rob Pike and Dave Cheney. If you're unfamiliar with this style, see: - https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2014/01/self-referential-functions-and-design.html - https://dave.cheney.net/2014/10/17/functional-options-for-friendly-apis. - https://sagikazarmark.hu/blog/functional-options-on-steroids/
func ExecutionPeriod ¶ added in v0.4.0
ExecutionPeriod is the period between successive executions.
func InitialDelay ¶ added in v0.4.0
InitialDelay is the time to delay first execution; defaults to zero.
func InitiallyPassing ¶ added in v0.4.0
InitiallyPassing indicates when true, the check will be treated as passing before the first run; defaults to false
type Result ¶
type Result struct {
// the details of task Result - may be nil
Details interface{} `json:"message,omitempty"`
// the error returned from a failed health check - nil when successful
Error error `json:"error,omitempty"`
// the time of the last health check
Timestamp time.Time `json:"timestamp"`
// the execution duration of the last check
Duration time.Duration `json:"duration,omitempty"`
// the number of failures that occurred in a row
ContiguousFailures int64 `json:"contiguousFailures"`
// the time of the initial transitional failure
TimeOfFirstFailure *time.Time `json:"timeOfFirstFailure"`
}
Result represents the output of a health check execution.
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