Obtaining simple health check data of Developer Portal sites by using a REST API call
Call a simple health check API from your external load balancer to dynamically determine whether a specific Developer Portal site in a cluster is working. This API call can be used by a load balancer to help determine where to route traffic.
About this task
Procedure
To call the site health REST API, append
/health
to the end of your Developer Portal site
URL in your web browser, as follows:
site_url/health
Where
site_url
is the URL of the Developer Portal site
that you want to check.If both the database and web server of the site are running, the web browser returns the
current system time. For example:
1511367695
If either the database or the web
server of the site is not running, the web browser returns an error that the site can't be
reached.