issue #48 - examples on monitoring the application

compose.yaml

@@ -83,6 +83,13 @@ services:
         tty: true
         container_name: bpc_admin_site_django
         privileged: true
+        restart: always
+        healthcheck:
+            test: ["CMD", "curl", "-f", "http://localhost:9999"]
+            interval: 30s
+            timeout: 10s
+            retries: 3
+            start_period: 5s
     cron-service:
         image: os2borgerpcadmin
         volumes:

monitoring.md

@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+# Monitoring OS2BorgerPC admin-site
+
+There are various ways of monitoring the application, som are:
+1) health check
+2) viewing logs
+3) viewing resource usage
+
+Below are examples on how this can be done for the provided docker-compose testing setup that can be used as inspiration.
+
+## Health check
+This section in the compose.yaml shows how to implement a health check for a docker-compose setup.
+```
+restart: always
+healthcheck:
+    test: ["CMD", "curl", "-f", "http://localhost:9999"]
+    interval: 30s
+    timeout: 10s
+    retries: 3
+    start_period: 5s
+```
+
+## Viewing logs
+```
+docker logs bpc_admin_site_django
+```
+
+## Viewing resource usage
+```
+docker stats bpc_admin_site_django
+```