Dropwizard (a web application framework/library) incorporates the idea of such health checks, and you can also implement additional ones specific to the applica

Dropwizard (a web application framework/library) incorporates the idea of such health checks, and you can also implement additional ones specific to the application. It is encouraged to run them periodically in production to ensure that the database connection is still up, threads are not stepping on each others' toes, etc. https://dropwizard.github.io/dropwizard/manual/core.html#health-checks https://dropwizard.github.io/dropwizard/manual/core.html#hea...