Introduction

With this extension you are able to check your http endpoints for availability and response time. You can also check the response body for specific strings.

Use Cases

• Check if your http endpoints are available within a given amount of checks

Parameters

Parameter	Description	Default
Duration	In which timeframe should the specified requests be executed?	GET
Method	The HTTP method to use	50%
URL	The URL to check.
Body	The HTTP Body.
Headers	The HTTP Headers.
NumberOfRequests	Fixed number of Requests, distributed to given duration
StatusCode	Which HTTP-Status code should be considered as success? This field supports ranges with '-' and multiple codes delimited by ';' for example '200-399;429'.
SuccessRate	How many percent of the Request must be at least successful (in terms of the given response status codes above) to continue the experiment execution? The result will be evaluated and the end of the given duration.	200-299
ResponsesContains	The Responses needs to contain the given string, otherwise the experiment will fail. The responses will be evaluated and the end of the given duration.
FollowRedirects	Should Redirects be followed?
ConnectTimeout	Connection Timeout for a single Call in seconds. Should be between 1 and 10 seconds.	5s
ReadTimeout	Read Timeout for a single Call in seconds. Should be between 1 and 10 seconds.	5s
MaxConcurrent	Maximum count on parallel running requests. (min 1, max 10)	5
InsecureSkipVerify	Should the TLS certificate be verified? If set to true, the certificate will not be verified.	false

Self signed certificates

If you want to use self-signed certificates, you need to import them into the extension. You can do this by mounting a volume with the certificates and referencing it in extraVolumeMounts and extraVolumes in the helm chart. See instructions in the extension-http documentation.