thunderbird / thunderbird/appointment
add periodic healthchecks on external services
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- Python
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Description
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
We should set up some periodic automated testing that checks external APIs that we rely on in case they’re down as well (ex: fxa, google calendar API). This is a suggestion due to issues we found during deployment. It'll help us quickly catch issues and help find the source of errors
Describe the solution you'd like
There are multiple ways to solve this, we can have a heathcheck on just the api endpoints themselves, or we can do a webdriver-powered integration test that runs against production and ensures that our prod environment can call out to external services.
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Research direction
The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by deciding whether checks should target the fxa and Google Calendar API endpoints or exercise production through a webdriver-based integration test, then define how periodic execution and failures will be reported. Done should mean the selected external-service checks run automatically and surface outages clearly.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- api, observability, testing
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100