在 Java/Spring 中监控第三方 HTTP 服务

Question

How should I monitor a HTTP service from within Spring or Java?
It's third party dependency my service critically relies upon.

Currently I would build my health check around a HttpRequest.
Is there any other way to query an HTTP service? A sophiticated ping alternative?

The dependency has no health endpoint, only a basic login screen.
It's a cloud service hosted aa cloud provider.

Answer 1

The only way to tell if an HTTP service is responsive is to send it an HTTP request.

If the service responds to something else, that might prove that it's running, but not that it's responsive to HTTP requests.