docker-documentation/images/docker-healthchecks.md

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# [linuxserver/healthchecks](https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-healthchecks)

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[Healthchecks](https://github.com/healthchecks/healthchecks) is a watchdog for your cron jobs. It's a web server that listens for pings from your cron jobs, plus a web interface.

## Supported Architectures

Our images support multiple architectures such as `x86-64`, `arm64` and `armhf`. We utilise the docker manifest for multi-platform awareness. More information is available from docker [here](https://github.com/docker/distribution/blob/master/docs/spec/manifest-v2-2.md#manifest-list) and our announcement [here](https://blog.linuxserver.io/2019/02/21/the-lsio-pipeline-project/).

Simply pulling `ghcr.io/linuxserver/healthchecks` should retrieve the correct image for your arch, but you can also pull specific arch images via tags.

The architectures supported by this image are:

| Architecture | Tag |
| :----: | --- |
| x86-64 | amd64-latest |
| arm64 | arm64v8-latest |
| armhf | arm32v7-latest |

## Application Setup

Access the WebUI at <your-ip>:8000. For more information, check out [Healthchecks](https://github.com/healthchecks/healthchecks).

## Usage

To help you get started creating a container from this image you can either use docker-compose or the docker cli.

### docker-compose (recommended, [click here for more info](https://docs.linuxserver.io/general/docker-compose))

```yaml
---
version: "2.1"
services:
  healthchecks:
    image: ghcr.io/linuxserver/healthchecks
    container_name: healthchecks
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - SITE_ROOT=<SITE_ROOT>
      - SITE_NAME=<SITE_NAME>
      - DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL=<DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL>
      - EMAIL_HOST=<EMAIL_HOST>
      - EMAIL_PORT=<EMAIL_PORT>
      - EMAIL_HOST_USER=<EMAIL_HOST_USER>
      - EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD=<EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD>
      - EMAIL_USE_TLS=<True or False>
      - ALLOWED_HOSTS=<ALLOWED_HOSTS>
      - SUPERUSER_EMAIL=<SUPERUSER_EMAIL>
      - SUPERUSER_PASSWORD=<SUPERUSER_PASSWORD>
      - REGENERATE_SETTINGS=True/False
    volumes:
      - <path to data on host>:/config
    ports:
      - 8000:8000
    restart: unless-stopped
```

### docker cli ([click here for more info](https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/cli/))

```bash
docker run -d \
  --name=healthchecks \
  -e PUID=1000 \
  -e PGID=1000 \
  -e SITE_ROOT=<SITE_ROOT> \
  -e SITE_NAME=<SITE_NAME> \
  -e DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL=<DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL> \
  -e EMAIL_HOST=<EMAIL_HOST> \
  -e EMAIL_PORT=<EMAIL_PORT> \
  -e EMAIL_HOST_USER=<EMAIL_HOST_USER> \
  -e EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD=<EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD> \
  -e EMAIL_USE_TLS=<True or False> \
  -e ALLOWED_HOSTS=<ALLOWED_HOSTS> \
  -e SUPERUSER_EMAIL=<SUPERUSER_EMAIL> \
  -e SUPERUSER_PASSWORD=<SUPERUSER_PASSWORD> \
  -e REGENERATE_SETTINGS=True/False \
  -p 8000:8000 \
  -v <path to data on host>:/config \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  ghcr.io/linuxserver/healthchecks
```

## Parameters

Docker images are configured using parameters passed at runtime (such as those above). These parameters are separated by a colon and indicate `<external>:<internal>` respectively. For example, `-p 8080:80` would expose port `80` from inside the container to be accessible from the host's IP on port `8080` outside the container.

### Ports (`-p`)

| Parameter | Function |
| :----: | --- |
| `8000` | will map the container's port 8000 to port 8000 on the host |

### Environment Variables (`-e`)

| Env | Function |
| :----: | --- |
| `PUID=1000` | for UserID - see below for explanation |
| `PGID=1000` | for GroupID - see below for explanation |
| `SITE_ROOT=<SITE_ROOT>` | The site's top-level URL and the port it listens to if differrent than 80 or 443 (e.g., https://healthchecks.example.com:8000) |
| `SITE_NAME=<SITE_NAME>` | The site's name (e.g., "Example Corp HealthChecks") |
| `DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL=<DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL>` | From email for alerts |
| `EMAIL_HOST=<EMAIL_HOST>` | SMTP host |
| `EMAIL_PORT=<EMAIL_PORT>` | SMTP port |
| `EMAIL_HOST_USER=<EMAIL_HOST_USER>` | SMTP user |
| `EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD=<EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD>` | SMTP password |
| `EMAIL_USE_TLS=<True or False>` | Use TLS for SMTP (`True` or `False`) |
| `ALLOWED_HOSTS=<ALLOWED_HOSTS>` | array of valid hostnames for the server `["test.com","test2.com"]` or `"*"` |
| `SUPERUSER_EMAIL=<SUPERUSER_EMAIL>` | Superuser email |
| `SUPERUSER_PASSWORD=<SUPERUSER_PASSWORD>` | Superuser password |
| `REGENERATE_SETTINGS=True/False` | Defaults to False. Set to true to always override the `local_settings.py` file with values from environment variables. Do not set to True if you have made manual modifications to this file. |

### Volume Mappings (`-v`)

| Volume | Function |
| :----: | --- |
| `/config` | database and healthchecks config directory volume mapping |

## Environment variables from files (Docker secrets)

You can set any environment variable from a file by using a special prepend `FILE__`.

As an example:

```bash
-e FILE__PASSWORD=/run/secrets/mysecretpassword
```

Will set the environment variable `PASSWORD` based on the contents of the `/run/secrets/mysecretpassword` file.

## Umask for running applications

For all of our images we provide the ability to override the default umask settings for services started within the containers using the optional `-e UMASK=022` setting.
Keep in mind umask is not chmod it subtracts from permissions based on it's value it does not add. Please read up [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umask) before asking for support.

## User / Group Identifiers

When using volumes (`-v` flags), permissions issues can arise between the host OS and the container, we avoid this issue by allowing you to specify the user `PUID` and group `PGID`.

Ensure any volume directories on the host are owned by the same user you specify and any permissions issues will vanish like magic.

In this instance `PUID=1000` and `PGID=1000`, to find yours use `id user` as below:

```bash
  $ id username
    uid=1000(dockeruser) gid=1000(dockergroup) groups=1000(dockergroup)
```

## Docker Mods

[![Docker Mods](https://img.shields.io/badge/dynamic/yaml?color=94398d&labelColor=555555&logoColor=ffffff&style=for-the-badge&label=healthchecks&query=%24.mods%5B%27healthchecks%27%5D.mod_count&url=https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubusercontent.com%2Flinuxserver%2Fdocker-mods%2Fmaster%2Fmod-list.yml)](https://mods.linuxserver.io/?mod=healthchecks "view available mods for this container.") [![Docker Universal Mods](https://img.shields.io/badge/dynamic/yaml?color=94398d&labelColor=555555&logoColor=ffffff&style=for-the-badge&label=universal&query=%24.mods%5B%27universal%27%5D.mod_count&url=https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubusercontent.com%2Flinuxserver%2Fdocker-mods%2Fmaster%2Fmod-list.yml)](https://mods.linuxserver.io/?mod=universal "view available universal mods.")

We publish various [Docker Mods](https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-mods) to enable additional functionality within the containers. The list of Mods available for this image (if any) as well as universal mods that can be applied to any one of our images can be accessed via the dynamic badges above.

## Support Info

* Shell access whilst the container is running:
  * `docker exec -it healthchecks /bin/bash`
* To monitor the logs of the container in realtime:
  * `docker logs -f healthchecks`
* Container version number
  * `docker inspect -f '{{ index .Config.Labels "build_version" }}' healthchecks`
* Image version number
  * `docker inspect -f '{{ index .Config.Labels "build_version" }}' ghcr.io/linuxserver/healthchecks`

## Versions

* **18.05.21:** - Add linuxserver wheel index.
* **11.01.21:** - Add libffi-dev to allow building of python cryptography lib.
* **19.07.20:** - Rebasing to alpine 3.12, fixed 'ALLOWED_HOSTS' bug, now defaults to wildcard
* **19.12.19:** - Rebasing to alpine 3.11.
* **31.10.19:** - Add postgres client and fix config for CSRF.
* **23.10.19:** - Allow to create superuser
* **28.06.19:** - Rebasing to alpine 3.10.
* **12.04.19:** - Rebase to Alpine 3.9.
* **23.03.19:** - Switching to new Base images, shift to arm32v7 tag.
* **14.02.19:** - Adding mysql libs needed for using a database.
* **11.10.18:** - adding pipeline logic and multi arching release
* **15.11.17:** - `git pull` is now in Dockerfile so each tagged container contains the same code version
* **17.10.17:** - Fixed `local_settings.py` output
* **27.09.17:** - Initial Release.