Alternatives and related projects

This document presents other projects that provide similar or complementary functionalities. It focuses on differences with hospital.

The python-hospital project

hospital is part of the python-hospital [1] project. hospital contains the general Python layer, and other projects focus on more specific needs.

For Django

django-health-check

django-health-check [3] provides health checks for the Django [2] framework.

Health checks instances need to be registered in order to be loaded. The registration is performed in a similar manner than admin classes of Django’s builtin administration application.

hospital is inspired by unittest and related tools, and so is discovery and loading.

django-doctor

django-doctor [4] provides health checks for the Django [2] framework.

hospital‘s features, such as HealthCheck, were first introduced in django-doctor. But some features were not specific to Django, and hospital was created. See https://github.com/funkbit/django-doctor/pull/2 and https://github.com/funkbit/django-doctor/pull/4.

django-smoketest

django-smoketest [5] provides health checks for the Django [2] framework.

Notes & references

[1]	https://github.com/python-hospital

[2]	(1, 2, 3) https://www.djangoproject.com/

[3]	https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-health-check

[4]	https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-doctor

[5]	https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-smoketest