[rabbitmq-discuss] API aliveness test

Fri Aug 12 00:22:12 BST 2011

In our monitoring that we have hooked up we check for the JSON
response and just wrap it in a try catch, raising an error if an
exception is thrown or status is not "ok"

Thanks,
James


On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Jason J. W. Williams
<jasonjwwilliams at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The documentation for the API aliveness-test call
> (/api/aliveness-test/<vhost>) defines the success result
> ({"status":"ok"}), but not the failure results. When I use
> "rabbitmqctl stop_app" to simulate a failure, I get fairly ugly
> traceback returned over HTTP (https://gist.github.com/1140707) that'll
> crash the JSON parser. So should I just do a string match for
> {"status": "ok"} (or HTTP error code match) and consider any other
> return a failure, or are there JSON-friendly error outputs as well?
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> -J
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