Health Check Package

Low-level health check implementations for different protocols and services in GoDoxy.

Overview

Purpose

This package provides health check implementations for various protocols:

• HTTP/HTTPS - Standard HTTP health checks with fasthttp
• H2C - HTTP/2 cleartext health checks
• Docker - Container health status via Docker API
• FileServer - Directory accessibility checks
• Stream - Generic network connection checks

Primary Consumers

• internal/health/monitor/ - Route health monitoring
• internal/metrics/uptime/ - Uptime poller integration

Non-goals

• Complex health check logic (response body validation, etc.)
• Authentication/authorization in health checks
• Multi-step health checks (login then check)

Stability

Internal package. Public functions are stable but may be extended with new parameters.

Public API

HTTP Health Check (http.go)

func HTTP(
    url *url.URL,
    method string,
    path string,
    timeout time.Duration,
) (types.HealthCheckResult, error)

H2C Health Check (http.go)

func H2C(
    ctx context.Context,
    url *url.URL,
    method string,
    path string,
    timeout time.Duration,
) (types.HealthCheckResult, error)

Docker Health Check (docker.go)

func Docker(
    ctx context.Context,
    containerID string,
) (types.HealthCheckResult, error)

FileServer Health Check (fileserver.go)

func FileServer(
    url *url.URL,
) (types.HealthCheckResult, error)

Stream Health Check (stream.go)

func Stream(
    url *url.URL,
) (types.HealthCheckResult, error)

Common Types (internal/types/)

type HealthCheckResult struct {
    Healthy  bool
    Latency  time.Duration
    Detail   string
}

type HealthStatus int

const (
    StatusHealthy   HealthStatus = 0
    StatusUnhealthy HealthStatus = 1
    StatusError     HealthStatus = 2
)

Architecture

HTTP Health Check Flow

Docker Health Check Flow

H2C Health Check Flow

FileServer Health Check Flow

Stream Health Check Flow

Configuration Surface

No explicit configuration per health check. Parameters are passed directly:

Check Type	Parameters
HTTP	URL, Method, Path, Timeout
H2C	Context, URL, Method, Path, Timeout
Docker	Context, ContainerID
FileServer	URL (path component used)
Stream	URL (scheme, host, port used)

HTTP Headers

All HTTP/H2C checks set:

• User-Agent: GoDoxy/<version>
• Accept: text/plain,text/html,*/*;q=0.8
• Accept-Encoding: identity
• Cache-Control: no-cache
• Pragma: no-cache

Dependency and Integration Map

External Dependencies

• github.com/valyala/fasthttp - High-performance HTTP client
• golang.org/x/net/http2 - HTTP/2 transport
• Docker socket (for Docker health check)

Internal Dependencies

• internal/types/ - Health check result types
• goutils/version/ - User-Agent version

Observability

Logs

No direct logging in health check implementations. Errors are returned as part of HealthCheckResult.Detail.

Metrics

• Check latency (returned in result)
• Success/failure rates (tracked by caller)

Security Considerations

• TLS certificate verification skipped (InsecureSkipVerify: true)
• Docker socket access required for Docker health check
• No authentication in health check requests
• User-Agent identifies GoDoxy for server-side filtering

Failure Modes and Recovery

HTTP/H2C

Failure Mode	Result	Notes
Connection timeout	Unhealthy	Detail: timeout message
TLS certificate error	Healthy	Handled gracefully
5xx response	Unhealthy	Detail: status text
4xx response	Healthy	Client error considered healthy

Docker

Failure Mode	Result	Notes
API call failure	Error	Throws error to caller
Container not running	Unhealthy	State: "Not Started"
Container dead/exited	Unhealthy	State logged
No health check configured	Error	Requires health check in image

FileServer

Failure Mode	Result	Notes
Path not found	Unhealthy	Detail: "path not found"
Permission denied	Error	Returned to caller
Other OS error	Error	Returned to caller

Stream

Failure Mode	Result	Notes
Connection refused	Unhealthy	Detail: error message
Network unreachable	Unhealthy	Detail: error message
DNS resolution failure	Unhealthy	Detail: error message
Context deadline	Unhealthy	Detail: timeout

Usage Examples

HTTP Health Check

url, _ := url.Parse("http://localhost:8080/health")
result, err := healthcheck.HTTP(url, "GET", "/health", 10*time.Second)
if err != nil {
    fmt.Printf("Error: %v\n", err)
}
fmt.Printf("Healthy: %v, Latency: %v, Detail: %s\n",
    result.Healthy, result.Latency, result.Detail)

H2C Health Check

ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 10*time.Second)
defer cancel()

url, _ := url.Parse("h2c://localhost:8080")
result, err := healthcheck.H2C(ctx, url, "GET", "/health", 10*time.Second)

Docker Health Check

ctx := context.Background()
result, err := healthcheck.Docker(ctx, "abc123def456")

FileServer Health Check

url, _ := url.Parse("file:///var/www/html")
result, err := healthcheck.FileServer(url)

Stream Health Check

url, _ := url.Parse("tcp://localhost:5432")
result, err := healthcheck.Stream(url)

Testing Notes

• Unit tests for each health check type
• Mock Docker server for Docker health check tests
• Integration tests require running services
• Timeout handling tests