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diff --git a/doc/monitoring/health_check.md b/doc/monitoring/health_check.md index eac57bc3de4..6cf93c33ec2 100644 --- a/doc/monitoring/health_check.md +++ b/doc/monitoring/health_check.md @@ -1,66 +1 @@ -# Health Check - -> [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/health_check` page of your GitLab instance. - - - -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 --header "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 --header "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 +This document was moved to [user/admin_area/monitoring/health_check](../user/admin_area/monitoring/health_check.md). |