Saleh Azimidokht (Cyber Huginn)

Posted on Aug 1

I Built a Lightweight Health Check Package for Django

#django #python #webdev #opensource

While working on several Django projects, I often needed a simple endpoint to verify that the application was actually healthy—not just running.

Most existing solutions were either too heavy, required extra configuration, or didn’t provide the flexibility I wanted.

So I built django-healthkit.

What it does

The package lets you expose a health endpoint that can verify different parts of your application.

Current checks include:

Configuration is intentionally simple:

HEALTH_CHECKS = [
    "database",
    "cache",
    "disk",
    "memory",
    "cpu",
]

Then expose the endpoint and you're ready to use it with:

My goal wasn't to create another monitoring platform.

I wanted a small package that answers one simple question:

Is my Django application actually healthy?

No dashboards.

No unnecessary dependencies.

Just a clean JSON response that can be consumed by automation.

This is only the first release.

Some ideas planned for future versions:

If you're using Django, I'd really appreciate your thoughts.

I'm a backend developer focused on Django, distributed systems, developer tools, and open-source software.