Love the idea, thanks for the contribution! Added a comment to the review.
-=Bill On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 5:00 PM, David Pan <david.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Aurora, > > I am currently working on a health check disabler for > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AURORA-795 > > Review Board: https://reviews.apache.org/r/26383/ > > Here is a brief description: > > The health check disabler is a way to temporarily disable health checks for > a running instance of a job. The user can disable the health checks by > going to the instance’s sandbox and creating a special file that contains > the snooze duration. After the snooze duration expires, the file is > deleted and health checks resume. This is especially useful during heap > dumps, when the instance freezes and no longer responds to health checks. > The health check disabler is required in this case to prevent the health > checker from killing the job being heap dumped. > > Thank you, > > David Pan >