prometheus-community / prometheus-community/stackdriver_exporter
Health endpoint
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enhancement
help wanted
- Dominant language
- Go
- Stars
- 295
- Forks
- 117
- Avg merge
- 9d 14h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 7
Description
Hey there,
Awesome work, thanks for doing this!
What do you think about adding a /healthz endpoint that will periodically try to get metrics and return a 503 in case authentication with GCP fails so this can be monitored without having to check logs?
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating the HTTP route registration and the existing metrics collection and GCP authentication path; the issue names no files or tests. Confirm the desired /healthz response for successful and failed authentication, including the periodic check, and verify coverage for the 503 monitoring behavior.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- gcp, go, prometheus
- Domain
- api, backend, observability
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100