apache / apache/airflow

Healthcheck endpoint for workers

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Description

**Description**

Now that the worker only responds to requests signed by the webserver (#16754), we should consider adding a health endpoint to the worker to help ensure it is up and healthy.

**Use case / motivation**

Users may want to have external monitoring on the workers logging webserver and having something that responds with a 200 instead of a 403 would be handy.

https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/16754#issuecomment-885661439

**Related Issues**

#16574

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Research direction

Start by reading the worker request-handling changes in #16754 and the related issue #16574 to understand the current signed-request behavior. Define and implement the health endpoint so external monitoring receives HTTP 200 while ordinary worker requests remain protected, then verify both responses with the relevant worker tests.

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Assessment

Tech stack
python
Domain
api, backend
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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