Feature request: TCP health check.

[c4milo]

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[gautamk]

👍

[ryanuber]

Seems like a useful generic check type, thanks! Also, for the time being, you can just use netcat to get this type of functionality.

nc -z -w5 <host> <port>

[c4milo]

@ryanuber nice trick! Although, I was thinking more in being able to monitor RDS instances from Consul.

[highlyunavailable]

@c4milo I use TCPing to do just that:

/bin/tcping -t 1 rds.hostname.goes.here 1433

[ryanuber]

What @highlyunavailable suggest should work too! Both commands would take a hostname and port, which should allow you to do exactly what you need.

[c4milo]

Cool! Thanks guys!

[Kosta-Github]

I still think, that a native TCP health check would be helpfull, especially in stripped down docker containers that might not contain nc or tcping ...

[DanyC97]

i agree with @Kosta-Github