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?	2s
HTTP Method	The HTTP method to use	GET
Target URL	The URL to check.
HTTP Body	(optional) The HTTP Body.
HTTP Headers	(optional) The HTTP Headers.
Number of Requests.	Fixed total number of requests, distributed evenly across the duration.	1
Required Success Rate	Percentage of requests that must be successful. Evaluated at the end of the duration.	100
Response status codes	HTTP status codes considered as success. Supports ranges with '-' and multiple codes delimited by ';', e.g. '200-399;429'.	200-299
Responses contain	(optional) The responses must contain this string, otherwise the step fails.
Response Time Verification Mode	(optional) Whether response time must be shorter or longer than the specified value.	NO_VERIFICATION
Response Time	(optional) The value for the response time verification.	500ms
Follow Redirects?	Whether HTTP redirects should be followed.
Connection Timeout	Connection timeout for a single call. Should be between 1 and 10 seconds.	5s
Read Timeout	Read timeout for a single call. Should be between 1 and 10 seconds.	5s
Max concurrent requests	Maximum number of parallel requests in flight at once. (min 1, max 10)	5
Skip certificate verification	(optional) Whether TLS certificate verification should be skipped.	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.