a6-recipe-health-check

What problem does it solve?

This Skill automates the configuration and monitoring of upstream health checks for Apache APISIX, ensuring high availability and automatically removing unhealthy backend nodes from rotation.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Active Health Checks: Configure APISIX to periodically probe backend nodes using HTTP, HTTPS, or TCP.
• Passive Health Checks: Enable APISIX to analyze real traffic responses to detect failures.
• Combined Checks: Utilize both active and passive checks for robust monitoring.
• Threshold Configuration: Define healthy/unhealthy criteria based on successes, failures, timeouts, and HTTP status codes.
• Use Case: Automatically detect and remove failing backend servers from a load balancer pool without manual intervention, ensuring seamless service for users.

Quick Start

Use the a6-recipe-health-check skill to configure active HTTP health checks for an upstream named 'backend' with nodes 'backend-1:8080', 'backend-2:8080', and 'backend-3:8080'.