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Sling Health Checks Migration Guide to Felix Health Checks

The Sling Health Check Runtime is deprecated and superseded by Felix Health Checks. See Sling Health Check Tools (deprecated) for documentation prior to deprecation and Sling Health Checks for checks implemented against the Felix Health Checks Runtime.

Migrate custom checks

Adjust maven dependencies

  • Remove dependencies for org.apache.sling:org.apache.sling.hc.api and org.apache.sling:org.apache.sling.hc.annotations (if used)
  • Add the following new dependencies: 
    <dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.felix</groupId>
    <artifactId>org.apache.felix.healthcheck.api</artifactId>
    <version>2.0.4</version>
    <scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.felix</groupId>
    <artifactId>org.apache.felix.healthcheck.annotation</artifactId>
    <version>2.0.0</version>
    <scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>

Adjust Health Check Code

Typically necessary steps:

  • Use the Organize Imports functionality of your IDE to fix the imports (mostly it is just replacing org.apache.sling.hc.api with org.apache.felix.hc.api, however the commonly used class FormattingResultLog has been moved from org.apache.sling.hc.util to org.apache.felix.hc.api)
  • For the case the annotation @SlingHealthCheck is used, replace that one with the new Felix annotations from org.apache.felix.healthcheck.annotation
  • There is no util package in the api bundle anymore, apart from FormattingResultLog the other classes in the package were rarely used. The class SimpleConstraintChecker has moved to org.apache.felix.hc.generalchecks.util in bundle generalchecks (maven dependency to org.apache.felix.healthcheck.generalchecks needs to be added for that case). For the other classes there is no replacement.

Only necessary if the the respective feature is used:

  • For Health Checks using property hc.warningsStickForMinutes, this has been renamed to hc.keepNonOkResultsStickyForSec - here the unit has changed from min to sec in order to allow for second-magnitude values that can be useful for deployment scenarios
  • For the case the property hc.async.cronExpression is used, the bundle org.apache.servicemix.bundles.quartz may be added to use quartz for cron expressions (in the same way as it was the case for the Sling Health Checks). If the bundle is not present, a simple cron trigger implementation included in org.apache.felix.healthcheck.core will be used instead, see FELIX-6265 for details.

Migrate a runtime

  • org.apache.sling.hc.api - keep to ensure bundles with checks that are not yet migrated work (can be removed once all bundles are migrated to new API)
  • org.apache.sling.hc.core - remove
  • org.apache.sling.hc.webconsole - remove
  • org.apache.sling.hc.support - keep, Sling specific health checks that don't fit anywhere else go there
  • org.apache.felix.healthcheck.api - add
  • org.apache.felix.healthcheck.core - add (also runs checks implemented against org.apache.sling.hc.api by default)
  • org.apache.felix.healthcheck.webconsoleplugin - add
  • org.apache.felix.healthcheck.generalchecks - add (optional but recommended)
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