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
>

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