Design for a lightweight healthcheck api in portal and content service.

Owned by Rajeev Sathish
Mar 07, 2019

Problem Statement

Currently, the health check API is checking that the dependent service is healthier or not to determine that this service is healthy

ex:

  • In the portal, the health check is trying to determine that the following service is up and running.
    1. Cassandra DB
    2. Learner Service
    3. Content Service

  • In the Content Service, the health check is trying to determine that the following service is up and running.
    1. Cassandra DB
    2. KnowledgePlatform Service
    3. Learner ServiceProposed