Source Health Check API Reference

Available on: Cloud Free, Cloud Professional, Cloud Enterprise

Introduction

The Source Health API is an admin-only endpoint which reports the health of sources whose Health Check is configured. Documentation here.

Endpoint

All requests are GET requests to the /healthz/sources endpoint.

API Spec

Request

GET /healthz/sources HTTP/1.1
X-Hasura-Role: admin

Response

The response is an object with the source name as key and health status as value.

{
    "source_1": HealthStatus,
    "source_2": HealthStatus,
     ...        ...
    "source_n": HealthStatus

}

The HealthStatus is an object with the following members.

Name	Type	Description
status	string	The status of the Health Check
error	any json	An additional field whose value varies based on the status
timestamp	string	A UTC time encoded value

Find the possible values of status field in the following along with corresponding error field value.

status	error	Description
"OK"	null	Health Check succeeded with configured test; the source is healthy
"TIMEOUT"	null	Health Check timed out
"ERROR"	HealthCheckError	Exceptions occurred after running Health Check; refer error for in-depth details
"FAILED"	String	Health Check failed due to bad configuration

The HealthCheckError is an object with the following members.

Name	Type	Description
message	string	A very short description of the error
extra	any json	An optional value that contains more details about the error

Sample response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "mssql_source_name": {
    "error": null,
    "status": "OK",
    "timestamp": "2022-08-09T09:32:05.235347837Z"
  },
  "postgres_source_name": {
    "error": {
      "message": "connection error",
      "extra": "connection to server at \"localhost\" (::1), port 6432 failed: Connection refused\n\tIs the server running on that host and accepting TCP/IP connections?\nconnection to server at \"localhost\" (127.0.0.1), port 6432 failed: Connection refused\n\tIs the server running on that host and accepting TCP/IP connections?\n"
    },
    "status": "ERROR",
    "timestamp": "2022-08-09T09:30:05.235347837Z"
  }
}

Note

The healthz/sources API endpoint cannot be disabled.