Most healthcheck endpoints return 200 OK as long as the process is running. That's not a healthcheck — it's a pulse check. Here's what happened when we confused the two, and what a real healthcheck should verify.
- Published On
infrastructure
Tags
consulting (53)debugging (23)developer-experience (18)architecture (17)reliability (15)devops (10)ai (9)performance (9)observability (7)code-quality (6)database (5)technical-debt (4)kubernetes (4)postgres (4)tooling (3)security (3)productivity (3)microservices (3)testing (3)engineering-culture (3)nodejs (2)code-review (2)deployment (2)databases (2)opentelemetry (2)monitoring (2)postgresql (2)ci-cd (2)javascript (2)goals (2)opinion (1)api-design (1)memory (1)configuration (1)error-handling (1)secrets-management (1)webhooks (1)infrastructure (1)resilience (1)containers (1)environments (1)queues (1)cloud (1)cost-optimization (1)orm (1)refactoring (1)on-call (1)alerting (1)incident-management (1)typescript (1)distributed-systems (1)caching (1)platform-engineering (1)dependencies (1)feature-flags (1)api (1)contracts (1)logging (1)mongodb (1)migration (1)workflow (1)nestjs (1)angular (1)sandbox (1)sonarcube (1)learning (1)journey (1)mdx (1)