django-health

Expose Django health checks by installing django-health-check via pip, registering it in INSTALLED_APPS, and wiring public URLs to output JSON or HTML endpoints that report application readiness for Kubernetes liveness probes.

A Django health check endpoint monitors database connectivity, migration status, cache availability, and storage health, providing a standardized report that monitoring systems and container orchestrators use to trigger proactive incident response.

You can add custom health checks to Django application monitoring using the django-health-check pluggable architecture, allowing integration with existing checks to extend endpoint coverage beyond built-in database, cache, and storage availability reporting.

django-health-check works with Docker and Kubernetes deployments by exposing public health endpoints accessible without tenant scoping, specifically designed to satisfy container orchestration readiness probes and monitoring system requirements.

Set up a Django health endpoint by installing django-health-check with pip, registering the apps in INSTALLED_APPS, exposing public URLs in urls_public.py, and testing the health endpoint output with curl at the /health/ path.