Health API

Get health data

The /health API endpoint provides HTTP GET access to health data for your Sensu instance.

Example

The following example demonstrates a request to the /health API endpoint, resulting in a JSON map that contains Sensu health data.

curl -X GET \
http://127.0.0.1:8080/health

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
{
  "Alarms": null,
  "ClusterHealth": [
    {
      "MemberID": 2882886652148554927,
      "MemberIDHex": "8923110df66458af",
      "Name": "default",
      "Err": "",
      "Healthy": true
    }
  ],
  "Header": {
    "cluster_id": 4255616344056076734,
    "member_id": 2882886652148554927,
    "raft_term": 26
  },
  "PostgresHealth": [
    {
      "Name": "my-postgres",
      "Active": false,
      "Healthy": false
    }
  ]
}

API Specification

/health (GET)
description Returns health information about the Sensu instance.
example url http://hostname:8080/health
query parameters timeout: Defines the timeout when querying etcd. Default is 3.
response type Map
response codes
  • Success: 200 (OK)
  • Error: 400 (Bad Request)

NOTE: The HTTP response codes for the health endpoint indicate whether your request reached Sensu rather than the health of your Sensu instance. To determine the health of your Sensu instance, you must process the JSON response body for your request. The health specification describes each attribute in the response body.
output 
{
  "Alarms": null,
  "ClusterHealth": [
    {
      "MemberID": 2882886652148554927,
      "MemberIDHex": "8923110df66458af",
      "Name": "default",
      "Err": "",
      "Healthy": true
    }
  ],
  "Header": {
    "cluster_id": 4255616344056076734,
    "member_id": 2882886652148554927,
    "raft_term": 26
  },
  "PostgresHealth": [
    {
      "Name": "my-postgres",
      "Active": false,
      "Healthy": false
    }
  ]
}