is there some sort of API endpoint that we can hit which ser

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is there some sort of API endpoint that we can hit which serves as a health check I m wondering how I can programmatically check that the agent is healthy

Zanie · Answer

Yep The agent hosts a healthcheck API

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Anna Geller · Answer

< Marvin> archive How can I programmatically check whether Prefect agent is healthy

Marvin · Answer

Constantino Schillebeeckx · Answer

very cool slightly smiling face

Zanie · Answer

Note you can also provide the address via the CLI with ` agent address TEXT `

Constantino Schillebeeckx · Answer

Could you give some hints on what the address might be We have an ECS agent running as a Fargate task

Zanie · Answer

The address is empty by default

Zanie · Answer

You ll need to set the environment variable for the config or change the command the task runs e g ```prefect agent local start agent address <http 0 0 0 0 5000 >```

Zanie · Answer

``` curl <http localhost 5000 api health> ```

Constantino Schillebeeckx · Answer

That makes sense for the local case but when my agent is hosted on ECS as a Fargate task I imagine I can t just set the address to anything

Zanie · Answer

0 0 0 0 binds to all incoming connections so you could then perform a healthcheck at whatever the IP of your task is

Zanie · Answer

That d be determined by AWS networking which I can t help you with slightly smiling face in that case you can check the agent s last query time by hitting the server s GraphqQL API instead

Zanie · Answer

e g `<https cloud prefect io api query= 0Aagent 0A 20> id 0A 20 last queried 0A `

Constantino Schillebeeckx · Answer

Even easier Thanks so much