» google_compute_health_check

Health Checks determine whether instances are responsive and able to do work. They are an important part of a comprehensive load balancing configuration, as they enable monitoring instances behind load balancers.

Health Checks poll instances at a specified interval. Instances that do not respond successfully to some number of probes in a row are marked as unhealthy. No new connections are sent to unhealthy instances, though existing connections will continue. The health check will continue to poll unhealthy instances. If an instance later responds successfully to some number of consecutive probes, it is marked healthy again and can receive new connections.

To get more information about HealthCheck, see:

API documentation
How-to Guides
- Official Documentation

» Example Usage - Health Check Basic

resource "google_compute_health_check" "internal-health-check" {
 name = "internal-service-health-check"

 timeout_sec        = 1
 check_interval_sec = 1

 tcp_health_check {
   port = "80"
 }
}

» Argument Reference

The following arguments are supported:

name - (Required) Name of the resource. Provided by the client when the resource is created. The name must be 1-63 characters long, and comply with RFC1035. Specifically, the name must be 1-63 characters long and match the regular expression [a-z]([-a-z0-9]*[a-z0-9])? which means the first character must be a lowercase letter, and all following characters must be a dash, lowercase letter, or digit, except the last character, which cannot be a dash.

check_interval_sec - (Optional) How often (in seconds) to send a health check. The default value is 5 seconds.
description - (Optional) An optional description of this resource. Provide this property when you create the resource.
healthy_threshold - (Optional) A so-far unhealthy instance will be marked healthy after this many consecutive successes. The default value is 2.
timeout_sec - (Optional) How long (in seconds) to wait before claiming failure. The default value is 5 seconds. It is invalid for timeoutSec to have greater value than checkIntervalSec.
unhealthy_threshold - (Optional) A so-far healthy instance will be marked unhealthy after this many consecutive failures. The default value is 2.
http_health_check - (Optional) A nested object resource Structure is documented below.
https_health_check - (Optional) A nested object resource Structure is documented below.
tcp_health_check - (Optional) A nested object resource Structure is documented below.
ssl_health_check - (Optional) A nested object resource Structure is documented below.
project - (Optional) The ID of the project in which the resource belongs. If it is not provided, the provider project is used.

The http_health_check block supports:

host - (Optional) The value of the host header in the HTTP health check request. If left empty (default value), the public IP on behalf of which this health check is performed will be used.
request_path - (Optional) The request path of the HTTP health check request. The default value is /.
response - (Optional) The bytes to match against the beginning of the response data. If left empty (the default value), any response will indicate health. The response data can only be ASCII.
port - (Optional) The TCP port number for the HTTP health check request. The default value is 80.
proxy_header - (Optional) Specifies the type of proxy header to append before sending data to the backend, either NONE or PROXY_V1. The default is NONE.

The https_health_check block supports:

host - (Optional) The value of the host header in the HTTPS health check request. If left empty (default value), the public IP on behalf of which this health check is performed will be used.
request_path - (Optional) The request path of the HTTPS health check request. The default value is /.
response - (Optional) The bytes to match against the beginning of the response data. If left empty (the default value), any response will indicate health. The response data can only be ASCII.
port - (Optional) The TCP port number for the HTTPS health check request. The default value is 443.
proxy_header - (Optional) Specifies the type of proxy header to append before sending data to the backend, either NONE or PROXY_V1. The default is NONE.

The tcp_health_check block supports:

request - (Optional) The application data to send once the TCP connection has been established (default value is empty). If both request and response are empty, the connection establishment alone will indicate health. The request data can only be ASCII.
response - (Optional) The bytes to match against the beginning of the response data. If left empty (the default value), any response will indicate health. The response data can only be ASCII.
port - (Optional) The TCP port number for the TCP health check request. The default value is 443.
proxy_header - (Optional) Specifies the type of proxy header to append before sending data to the backend, either NONE or PROXY_V1. The default is NONE.

The ssl_health_check block supports:

request - (Optional) The application data to send once the SSL connection has been established (default value is empty). If both request and response are empty, the connection establishment alone will indicate health. The request data can only be ASCII.
response - (Optional) The bytes to match against the beginning of the response data. If left empty (the default value), any response will indicate health. The response data can only be ASCII.
port - (Optional) The TCP port number for the SSL health check request. The default value is 443.
proxy_header - (Optional) Specifies the type of proxy header to append before sending data to the backend, either NONE or PROXY_V1. The default is NONE.

» Attributes Reference

In addition to the arguments listed above, the following computed attributes are exported:

creation_timestamp - Creation timestamp in RFC3339 text format.
type - The type of the health check. One of HTTP, HTTPS, TCP, or SSL.
self_link - The URI of the created resource.

» Timeouts

This resource provides the following Timeouts configuration options:

create - Default is 4 minutes.
update - Default is 4 minutes.
delete - Default is 4 minutes.

» Import

HealthCheck can be imported using any of these accepted formats:

$ terraform import google_compute_health_check.default projects/{{project}}/global/healthChecks/{{name}}
$ terraform import google_compute_health_check.default {{project}}/{{name}}
$ terraform import google_compute_health_check.default {{name}}

If you're importing a resource with beta features, make sure to include -provider=google-beta as an argument so that Terraform uses the correct provider to import your resource.