Comment on Daily Invidious Restarts

irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• deviceshelf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Here’s the shape, if it saves you the fiddling. Put it in the compose file rather than a cron:

  healthcheck:
    test: ["CMD-SHELL", "wget -qO- http://localhost:3000/api/v1/trending >/dev/null || exit 1"]
    interval: 5m
    timeout: 10s
    retries: 3
  restart: unless-stopped
  

  Port and path to match your setup, and use wget rather than curl unless you know the image ships curl, since a healthcheck that fails because the binary is missing looks exactly like a service that is down.

  One catch: Docker marks a container unhealthy but won’t restart it for you. Either pair it with something like autoheal, which watches for that state, or keep your cron and have it check first and restart only on failure.

  Either way you get the thing the blind hourly restart can’t give you: a log of how often it actually fired. Never, and you didn’t need the restarts. Constantly, and there’s a real bug worth chasing rather than a schedule papering over it.

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  • irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Hey bro, forgot to come back and thank you. That worked. I appreciate it greatly.

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  • irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Aww shit man. Thanks for that. I’m going to do this today! Thank you. You are very generous with your time.

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