Health Checks

Health Checks and Readiness Probes

@app.get("/health")
def liveness():
    """Liveness: is the service running?"""
    return {"status": "alive", "service": "user-service"}

@app.get("/ready")
def readiness():
    """Readiness: is service ready for traffic?"""
    try:
        db.execute("SELECT 1")
        redis_client.ping()
        return {"status": "ready"}
    except Exception as e:
        return {"status":"not ready","error":str(e)}, 503

# Kubernetes probes
livenessProbe:
  httpGet: {path: /health, port: 8000}
  initialDelaySeconds: 10
  periodSeconds: 30
  failureThreshold: 3

readinessProbe:
  httpGet: {path: /ready, port: 8000}
  periodSeconds: 10
  failureThreshold: 3