Bug 1804578

Summary:	Octavia PING type health monitor support
Product:	Red Hat OpenStack	Reporter:	Carlos Goncalves <cgoncalves>
Component:	documentation	Assignee:	Greg Rakauskas <gregraka>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	RHOS Documentation Team <rhos-docs>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	16.0 (Train)	CC:	cgoncalves, gregraka, michjohn
Target Milestone:	async	Keywords:	Triaged
Target Release:	16.0 (Train on RHEL 8.1)
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Last Closed:	2020-08-13 21:33:23 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Bug Blocks:	1868807, 1868808, 1868809

Description Carlos Goncalves 2020-02-19 08:17:37 UTC

Octavia has a PING type health monitor. Health monitors of type PING only check if the member is reachable and responds to ICMP echo requests. It will not detect if your application running on that instance is healthy or not. Its usage is discouraged and not supported in OSP.

Upstream documentation provides more context:
https://docs.openstack.org/octavia/latest/user/guides/basic-cookbook.html#other-heath-monitors

Comment 1 Michael Johnson 2020-02-19 15:36:45 UTC

Linked to the upstream patch where I try to clarify the PING health monitor.

Comment 5 Greg Rakauskas 2020-08-13 21:32:55 UTC

Hi,

RHOSP 16.0 customers can now see this update to the "Networking Guide" here:

   https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_openstack_platform/16.0/html-single/networking_guide/index#sec-octavia

--Greg