HealthCheck

Simple utility class to setup periodic http pings to an endpoint. Used to monitor an app uptime and report errors.

Install

npm install @todotoit/healthcheck

Usage

import HealthCheck from '@todotoit/healthcheck'
const hc = new HealthCheck({options})

hc.start()  // starts a timer - called by default when calling new HealthCheck() without autorun: false;
hc.stop()   // stops a running timer
hc.error()  // makes an http request to the configured fail endpoint

Error reporting

const hc = new HealthCheck({fail: 'YOUR_FAIL_ENDPOINT'})

doSomething()
  .then(...)
  .catch(e => {
    hc.error()
  })

Options

{
  url: '...',         // the url for the http request
  interval: 3600,     // default: pings every hour - can be a later time string eg. "every 6 hours"
  autorun: true,      // by default, the timer starts when the class is instantiated, you can set this to false to start it programmatically using hc.start()
  fail: '/fail'       // alternative url to call when reporting errors - absolute if it starts with the protocol (http:// or https://), appended to the default url if not
  callback: false     // a callback to be called each time the healthcheck runs - it receives the response text as an argument
}

Development

1. Build the library

• Run npm install to get the project's dependencies
• Run npm run build to produce minified version of the library.

2. Development mode

• Having all the dependencies installed run npm run dev. This command will generate an non-minified version of the library and will run a watcher so you get the compilation on file change.