Java EE 8 Design Patterns and Best Practices

Explaining the health endpoint monitoring pattern

In a business environment, applications always need to be available and to perform correctly. It is, therefore, necessary to monitor whether this is the case for all services. Monitoring applications on the cloud, however, is often difficult.

The health endpoint monitoring pattern implements a health monitor by sending requests to endpoints on the application and verifying the status returned by them. This pattern then analyzes the result returned by the application and performs the health verification check, as illustrated in the following diagram:

In the preceding diagram, we can see the ...