# codingjoe/django-health-check

Pluggable health checks for Django applications

Repository: https://github.com/codingjoe/django-health-check
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/django-health-check
Homepage: https://codingjoe.dev/django-health-check/
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: django, monitoring, container, docker, health-check
Last push: 2026-08-25T05:33:38+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 99/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 98, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5492, "days_push": 8, "days_rel": 12, "gap_med": 1, "n_releases_24m": 44}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1422, forks 224 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:40.781187+00:00)

## What it is
A pluggable health check library for Django applications that monitors the app and its connected services. It bundles checks for caches, databases, disk/memory, DNS, email, Celery, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, and cloud provider status, with output via HTML, HTTP status codes, OpenMetrics, CLI, RSS/Atom, and JSON.

## Use cases
- add a health check endpoint to a django app
- kubernetes liveness and readiness probes for django
- expose prometheus metrics for service health
- check database and redis connectivity from a load balancer
- monitor celery worker health
- docker healthcheck command for a django container

## When to choose
- you run Django behind load balancers or orchestrators that need health endpoints
- you want bundled checks for common services like databases, caches, and message queues
- you need machine-readable health output (Prometheus, JSON, HTTP status codes)

## When to avoid
- your application is not built on Django
- you need health checks for a non-Python stack
- you need full application performance monitoring rather than health checks

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: monitoring, alerting
- domain: monitoring, web-development, backend
- platform: python, cli
- tags: django, health-check, prometheus, load-balancer, uptime-monitoring, celery, redis, devops, docker, kubernetes, web-server

## Member repositories
- codingjoe/django-health-check (main) score 99

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:40.781187+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:37:41.308563+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/codingjoe/django-health-check (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:40.781187+00:00, sha d5d56f8819b1)
  - homepage: https://codingjoe.dev/django-health-check/ (fetched 2026-08-29T11:49:48.407405+00:00, sha aadaeb74de1e)
  - site_page: https://codingjoe.dev/django-health-check/install (fetched 2026-08-29T11:49:48.416507+00:00, sha 483a4ab58dd3)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/django-health-check/json (fetched 2026-08-29T11:49:48.418392+00:00, sha 3d0166366bd2)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.