Health check endpoint

[joarobles]

Is there any health check endpoint available?

[caronc]

In terms of apprise-api, I would advise just accessing the main website and verify you get a 200 response.

There is no overhead, no sql database dependency, etc. So there isn't really much gain in another endpoint that just has the word "OK" hard-coded as it's output.

Thoughts?

[ingoratsdorf]

Well, healthchecks are run within the container and the base python layer has nothing that would assist, ie no ping, no wget, no curl. Meaning you can do an external health check against the container, but nothing much really within the container itself. Which is not an issue for the API. The API is just sitting there for as long as the container is up and running. Unfortunately, running is different from healthy.
For example Netdata by default monitors for "healthy", not "running".
So an output of "OK" would sort of make sense.
It's gets trickier with the web UI. Same issue of the base system not providing any commands within the container itself, no wget, no curl, no ping, not even a PS to check against a daemon or process running etc.
So in summary, while not necessary, a healthcheck would be a nice to have ;-)