http://metrics.dropwizard.io/metrics-healthchecks: An addition to Metrics which provides the ability to run application-specific health checks, allowing you to check your application's heath in production.
  • Coda Hale
  • Ryan Tenney
  • Artem Prigoda 
package com.codahale.metrics.health.jvm;

import com.codahale.metrics.health.HealthCheck;
import com.codahale.metrics.jvm.ThreadDeadlockDetector;

import java.util.Set;


A health check which returns healthy if no threads are deadlocked.

/**
 * A health check which returns healthy if no threads are deadlocked.
 */
public class ThreadDeadlockHealthCheck extends HealthCheck {
    private final ThreadDeadlockDetector detector;

    
Creates a new health check.

/**
     * Creates a new health check.
     */
    public ThreadDeadlockHealthCheck() {
        this(new ThreadDeadlockDetector());
    }

    
Creates a new health check with the given detector.

Params:
  • detector – a thread deadlock detector
/**
     * Creates a new health check with the given detector.
     *
     * @param detector a thread deadlock detector
     */
    public ThreadDeadlockHealthCheck(ThreadDeadlockDetector detector) {
        this.detector = detector;
    }

    @Override
    protected Result check() throws Exception {
        final Set<String> threads = detector.getDeadlockedThreads();
        if (threads.isEmpty()) {
            return Result.healthy();
        }
        return Result.unhealthy(threads.toString());
    }
}