docker-documentation/images/docker-healthchecks.md

linuxserver/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 and our announcement here.

Simply pulling 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

Usage

Here are some example snippets to help you get started creating a container from this image.

docker

docker create \
  --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=<EMAIL_USE_TLS> \
  -e ALLOWED_HOSTS=<ALLOWED_HOSTS> \
  -p 8000:8000 \
  -v <path to data>:/config \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  linuxserver/healthchecks

docker-compose

Compatible with docker-compose v2 schemas.

---
version: "2"
services:
  healthchecks:
    image: 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=<EMAIL_USE_TLS>
      - ALLOWED_HOSTS=<ALLOWED_HOSTS>
    volumes:
      - <path to data>:/config
    ports:
      - 8000:8000
    restart: unless-stopped

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 domain (i.e., example.com)
SITE_NAME=<SITE_NAME>	The site's name
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=<EMAIL_USE_TLS>	Use TLS for SMTP
ALLOWED_HOSTS=<ALLOWED_HOSTS>	array of valid hostnames for the server ["test.com","test2.com"]

Volume Mappings (-v)

Volume	Function
/config	database and healthchecks config

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:

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

Application Setup

Access the WebUI at :8000. For more information, check out Healthchecks.

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" }}' linuxserver/healthchecks

Versions

• 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.