You could probably use http://example.org/config/global.ini.php or http://example.org/config/config.ini.php since it is unlikely that we will remove those files anytime soon. We do have some monitoring running as well but I do not know what we use for our health checks. We do not really have this problem that they could go into freefall launching and terminating.

What exactly did you want to test here? Just whether the webserver is running in general?

Thanks for the response.

I'll try those pages.

Yes we just want to know if the server is up and running.

The problem is manifest when using health checks with autoscaling. If the health check fails then autoscaling kills the instance and creates a new one. But the health check will always fail if the page doesn't return a 200 (for whatever reason).

@petergillardmoss I will reopen this issue for now since we probably actually need a file / api for that to prevent issues like this and #7850 in the future. At least we'll have to think about it and see what we can/want to do.

ping @mattab

I forgot about this issue and created another issue in #7904

@petergillardmoss feel free to add your thoughts over there

what URL should we use for a health check if we put matomo behind a load balancer? This thread was unfortunately not useful so far.

GET matomo.ours.co/xyz  

?

and expect http code 200?

You could for example create a site for ELB and use the tracking API for this like http://yourdomain.com/matomo.php?rec=1&idsite=1&action_name=foo&send_image=1 this will also test DB connection basically.