Gitmoji: 🩺 for Healthchecks

[hf-kklein]

Hello @carloscuesta :sunglasses:!

• Emoji: :stethoscope:
• Code: :stethoscope:
• Description: When healthchecks have been added or updated.

I already submitted PR #667 for this.

[johannchopin]

Hey @hf-kklein 👋 Thanks for the proposition.

What do you mean with the term healthchecks in programmation? 🤔 Do you have an example for it?

[hf-kklein]

What do you mean with the term healthchecks in programmation?

A health check is an endpoint used in Web APIs. It allows to easily check if a system is up and running, e.g. by testing if the database credentials are ok. See e.g.

• Health Checks in ASP.NET Core
• Health Checks in Python
• Health Checks with Kubernetes

[carloscuesta]

I really like the concept behind the emoji! But I'm a little bit worried about the specificity of it

[vhoyer]

I'm personally not a huge fan of commits that you only use once in the project, and I don't see this being used more than once :thinking:

[hf-kklein]

Thanks for your feedback!

But I'm a little bit worried about the specificity of it

I agree it's a very backendish thing.

and I don't see this being used more than once 🤔

It's not uncommon to have multiple health checks or adding more checks over time. Usually there is one common endpoint, which is only created once; that's right. But there might actually be more than one check that is run when calling the health check endpoint. Think of, for example:

• check that the database is up and running
• check that the redis is up and running
• check that credentials for various third party services (external API, mail server...) are correct
• check that environment variable required for feature xyz is set.

So I wouldn't say it's a "once a in project lifetime" commit emoji as basically a lot of features could come with their own health check that needs to be written and registered. For these commit emoji would imho be useful.