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Re: CF app that helps with self-healing

Daniel Mikusa
 

Not sure I totally get what you are asking, but `cf restart-app-instance` will restart an instance, so if you have an alert trigger a script, you could script the restart.

Or you could just have the app itself know when it gets into a bad state, presumably it would if it's emitting the metrics to indicate this, and exit. When it exits the platform will just restart the app.

Dan


On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 12:30 PM Siva <mailsiva@...> wrote:
Dear CF community,
We are trying to find a way to selectively restart some instances of apps or to restart a specific app on an as needed basis based on some alerts that we receive from our monitoring solution. One option we are considering is to have a self-healing app deployed in CF which will have some REST endpoints exposed which we can call from our alert policies that will perform those actions for us. This self-healing app will essentially have the capabilities of CF CLI for stopping and starting services and instances. This app will also be protected by UAA.
Before we go off and start developing this app, I wanted to check if anyone in the CF community has thought about this approach before and have a solution in place or any ideas to consider.

Thanks,
Siva Balan
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