Re: Kafka Rest Proxy health check URL

2016-02-09 Thread Rajiv Jivan
Thanks Ewen. Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 9, 2016, at 12:59 PM, Ewen Cheslack-Postava wrote: > > Yeah, you definitely want one that's cheaper than /topics. The root > resource / is effectively a nop you can check for liveness of the service > (but not for, e.g., more general health like connec

Re: Kafka Rest Proxy health check URL

2016-02-09 Thread Ewen Cheslack-Postava
Yeah, you definitely want one that's cheaper than /topics. The root resource / is effectively a nop you can check for liveness of the service (but not for, e.g., more general health like connectivity to ZK or Kafka). The most it will ever do is return a list of available subresources, so it should

Kafka Rest Proxy health check URL

2016-02-09 Thread Rajiv Jivan
I am looking to monitor my kakfa rest proxy servers and was wondering if there is an endpoint that can be checked to see if the server is running. I am currently checking if endpoint /topics returns a 200. Is that a reasonable endpoint to run the test against. I would prefer to have one that is