Integrating uptime monitoring

Would you use an application that frequently goes down? No. When you create an application and users are using it, you need to make sure your service has maximum availability. The uptime SLA is crucial for every service to establish trust among users. In this section, we shall learn how we can monitor the uptime of our Django application by adding a health check endpoint to our automated monitoring system.

Adding a health check endpoint

django-health-check (https://github.com/revsys/django-health-check) is a third-party package that can be easily added to any Django project to create an endpoint that can be monitored for uptime. Let us learn how to integrate django-health-check into the Django project. To do so, follow these steps:

1. Install django-health-check in our Django project by using the following code in our terminal:

   pip install django-health-check

2. Now add health_check to Django INSTALLED_APPS in the settings.py file:

   INSTALLED_APPS...