= MicroProfile Custom Health Check
:index-group: MicroProfile
:jbake-type: page
:jbake-status: published

This is an example of how to use MicroProfile Custom Health Check in TomEE.

[discrete]
==== Health Feature

Health checks are used to probe the state of services and resources that an application might depend on or even to expose its
state, e.g. in a cluster environment, where an unhealthy node needs to be discarded (terminated, shutdown) and eventually
replaced by another healthy instance.

By default, https://github.com/eclipse/microprofile-health[microprofile-health-api] provides a basic output of a node by
 simply hitting the endpoint http://host:port/health.

[source,json]
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{"checks":[],"outcome":"UP","status":"UP"}
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To provide a customized output, Let's say we have an application that uses a Weather API, and if the service becomes
unavailable, we should report the service as DOWN.

To begin with a customized output, is needed to implement the interface https://github.com/eclipse/microprofile-health/blob/master/api/src/main/java/org/eclipse/microprofile/health/HealthCheck.java[HealthCheck],
make the class a managed bean by annotating it with `@ApplicationScoped` plus with `@Health` annotation to active the custom check.
See more here https://github.com/apache/geronimo-health/blob/master/geronimo-health/src/main/java/org/apache/geronimo/microprofile/impl/health/cdi/GeronimoHealthExtension.java[GeronimoHealthExtension.java]

[source,java]
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@Health
@ApplicationScoped
public class WeatherServiceHealthCheck implements HealthCheck {

    @Inject WeatherGateway weatherGateway;

    @Override
    public HealthCheckResponse call() {
        HealthCheckResponseBuilder responseBuilder = HealthCheckResponse.named("OpenWeatherMap");
        try {
            WeatherApiStatus status = weatherGateway.getApiStatus();
            return responseBuilder.withData("weatherServiceApiUrl", status.getUrl())
                    .withData("weatherServiceApiVersion", status.getVersion())
                    .withData("weatherServiceMessage", status.getMessage())
                    .up().build();
        } catch (WeatherException e) {
            return responseBuilder.withData("weatherServiceErrorMessage", e.getMessage()).down().build();
        }
    }
}
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In the example above, the health probe name is https://openweathermap.org/appid[OpenWeatherMap] (_illustrative only_) which provides a
subscription plan to access its services and if the limit of calls is exceeded the API becomes unavailable until it's renewed.

[discrete]
=== Examples

.Running the application
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    mvn clean install tomee:run
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[discrete]
==== Example 1

When hitting /health endpoint, OpenWeatherMap tell us that our remaining calls are running out and we should take
an action before it gets unavailable.

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curl http://localhost:8080/mp-custom-healthcheck/health
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[source,json]
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{
   "checks":[
      {
         "data":{
            "weatherServiceApiVersion":"2.5",
            "weatherServiceMessage":"Your account will become unavailable soon due to limitation of your
                                    subscription type. Remaining API calls are 1",
            "weatherServiceApiUrl":"http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/"
         },
         "name":"OpenWeatherMap",
         "state":"UP"
      }
   ],
   "outcome":"UP",
   "status":"UP"
}
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[discrete]
==== Example 2

Weather API still working fine.

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curl http://localhost:8080/mp-custom-healthcheck/weather/day/status
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[source,text]
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Hi, today is a sunny day!
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[discrete]
==== Example 3

When hitting one more time /health endpoint, OpenWeatherMap tell us that our account is temporary blocked and this
service is being reported as DOWN.

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curl http://localhost:8080/mp-custom-healthcheck/health
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[source,json]
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{
   "checks":[
      {
         "data":{
            "weatherServiceErrorMessage":"Your account is temporary blocked due to exceeding of
            requests limitation of your subscription type. Please choose the proper subscription
            http://openweathermap.org/price"
         },
         "name":"weatherservice",
         "state":"DOWN"
      }
   ],
   "outcome":"DOWN",
   "status":"DOWN"
}
----

[discrete]
==== Example 4

Weather API has stopped.

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curl http://localhost:8080/mp-custom-healthcheck/weather/day/status
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[source,text]
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Weather Service is unavailable at moment, retry later.
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[discrete]
===== Running the tests

You can also try it out using the link:src/test/java/org/superbiz/rest/WeatherServiceTest.java[WeatherServiceTest.java] available in the project.

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mvn clean test
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[INFO] Results:
[INFO]
[INFO] Tests run: 4, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped:
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