[grpc-io] Re: Is it a good idea to use stream RPC for health check?

2016-10-14 Thread stephen . haberman
Ironically, I have a grpc-java project that uses a long-lived, two-way stream, but I had to add manual, ping-based health checks to detect disconnections. I am anticipating/assuming eventually grpc will handle this, but for me neither the server or client side would notice when the connection

[grpc-io] Is it a good idea to use stream RPC for health check?

2016-10-14 Thread ran.bi via grpc.io
I think it is feasible to use a long-lived stream RPC for sending health status updates. Clients should have more up-to-date service health status with this approach compare to periodically pinging server. Is there any caveats with this approach?? -- You received this message because you are