Http Health Monitor Check Not Working with dynamic variables

[#1]

I have HTTP Target Tab as:

<HTTPTargetConnection>
        <Properties/>
        <LoadBalancer>
            <Server name="PCFHealthTarget"/>
            <MaxFailures>5</MaxFailures>
        </LoadBalancer>
        <Path>/v1</Path>
        <HealthMonitor>
            <IsEnabled>true</IsEnabled>
            <IntervalInSec>5</IntervalInSec>
            <HTTPMonitor>
                <Request>
                    <ConnectTimeoutInSec>10</ConnectTimeoutInSec>
                    <SocketReadTimeoutInSec>400</SocketReadTimeoutInSec>
                    <Path>/v1/customers/search?msisdn=3862811031</Path>
                    <Header name="Authorization">Bearer l3YVt6uBYU74QK8mGF1siGdrqu0O</Header>

                </Request>
                <SuccessResponse>
                    <ResponseCode>200</ResponseCode>
                </SuccessResponse>
            </HTTPMonitor>
        </HealthMonitor>
    </HTTPTargetConnection>

Health Monitor fine but as soon as I add the verb {{request.verb}} as below doesn't work.

Also, can we have multiple response code values in <ResponseCode> tag and how to achieve it.

We need to do a health check on backend servers.Is below right way to approach

<HTTPMonitor>
                <Request>
                    <ConnectTimeoutInSec>10</ConnectTimeoutInSec>
                    <SocketReadTimeoutInSec>400</SocketReadTimeoutInSec>
                    <Path>/v1/customers/search?msisdn=3862811031</Path>
                    <Header name="Authorization">Bearer l3YVt6uBYU74QK8mGF1siGdrqu0O</Header>
<Verb>{request.verb}</Verb>
                </Request>
                <SuccessResponse>
                    <ResponseCode>200</ResponseCode>
                </SuccessResponse>
            </HTTPMonitor>

[kurtkanaskie]

Hi @mohit.baveja ,

It doesn't make sense to try and get the request verb, because there is no request flow.

Edge is generating the request to check the Path every <IntervalInSec>.

What I did discover while testing different verbs, is that you need to have at least an empty payload for POST to work, otherwise Edge uses GET.

<Verb>POST</Verb>
<Payload><Payload>

Also, if you use GET, you must not have a Payload, otherwise Edge will force it to use POST.

Thanks for using the community and don't forget to hit Accept if your satisfied!

[#3]

Hi Kurt,

My point is what if I want the path to dynamic Variables, because my backend path is not the same as front-end path. Can health Monitor works with dynamic variables, even payload will be diiferent for different scenarios

[kurtkanaskie]

No, Edge is generating the health check request and sending it to the targets, independent of an API proxy traffic. So there is no place to get the variables from.

[kbravo]

Not even from the environment? We need to pass a header value required by our backend stored in our Apigee environment. Is there no way to retrieve those either?