healthcheck

logspout-healthcheck

adds a healtcheck endpoiunt to gliderlabs/logspout.

usage

• add logspout-healthcheck to your modules.go. example;

  package main
  
  import (
  	_ "github.com/gliderlabs/logspout/adapters/syslog"
  	_ "github.com/gliderlabs/logspout/transports/tcp"
  	_ "github.com/briceburg/logspout-healthcheck"
    ...
  )
  

• build logspout

• test /healthcheck endpoint. example with logspout listening on :8888;

$ docker run --rm -d \
  -p 8888:80 \
  -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
  logspout:custom

$ curl http://localhost:8888/healthcheck
OK

usage as a Dockerfile HEALTCHECK

FROM gliderlabs/logspout

HEALTHCHECK --interval=10s --timeout=3s --retries=2 \
  CMD wget -q --spider http://localhost/healthcheck

wget is included in alpine/busybox. curl is not.