Comment on Ask HN: How to do simple heartbeat monitoring?parentComments−hinkley2yIn the old days when telemetry was exotic this was the answer.No 2XX-499 results means the server is borked.If you wanted to be really fancy you could send heartbeat requests when no live traffic had hit that node for n milliseconds.I still think the latter is the right answer. Why inflate traffic when you are horizontally scaling? That’s a lot of health checks per second.
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In the old days when telemetry was exotic this was the answer.
No 2XX-499 results means the server is borked.
If you wanted to be really fancy you could send heartbeat requests when no live traffic had hit that node for n milliseconds.
I still think the latter is the right answer. Why inflate traffic when you are horizontally scaling? That’s a lot of health checks per second.