I have a docker compose file initiating my databas...
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I have a docker compose file initiating my database and self hosted prefect server. I want to have a healthcheck for my prefect server. The server uses prefecthq/prefect:3.2.14-python3.10. @Marvin How can I setup a healtcheck for the container
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To set up a healthcheck for your Prefect server container using Docker Compose, you can utilize Docker's built-in healthcheck feature. Here's a basic example of how you might configure it:
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yaml
version: '3.8'
services:
  prefect-server:
    image: prefecthq/prefect:3.2.14-python3.10
    ports:
      - "4200:4200"
    healthcheck:
      test: ["CMD", "curl", "-f", "<http://localhost:4200/api/health>"]
      interval: 30s
      timeout: 10s
      retries: 3
      start_period: 5s
### Explanation: - test: This uses
curl
to check if the Prefect server's API is responding. Adjust the URL to match your server's actual API endpoint. - interval: How often to perform the healthcheck. - timeout: The time to wait for a response before considering the healthcheck to have failed. - retries: The number of consecutive failures needed to consider the container unhealthy. - start_period: The time to wait before starting the healthchecks after the container starts. For more advanced healthcheck setups, you might consider integrating a Prefect flow to perform the healthcheck logic, as demonstrated in this example code. For more information about self-hosting Prefect, refer to the Prefect server documentation.