# django-deploy-probes — deployment probe endpoints for Django

> Source: <https://dev.to/emfpdlzj/django-deploy-probes-deployment-probe-endpoints-for-django-5akb>
> Published: 2026-05-24 04:26:25+00:00

When deploying Django applications, I kept running into the same problem: health check endpoints were implemented differently in every project, and liveness checks often got mixed together with dependency checks.

I built `django-deploy-probes`

to make that cleaner.

It is a small Django package that adds these endpoints:

`/healthz`

`/readyz`

`/startupz`

`/version`

The package is meant for production deployment workflows such as Docker health checks, Kubernetes liveness/readiness/startup probes, blue-green deployments, rolling deployments, and CI/CD deployment validation.

One design choice I cared about was keeping `/healthz`

lightweight. Database, Redis, Celery, or other dependency checks do not belong in a liveness endpoint by default, so those checks are meant to live in `/readyz`

or `/startupz`

and be enabled explicitly through settings.

The goal was not to build a full monitoring system, but to provide a small, reusable package for a piece of deployment logic that tends to get rewritten over and over in Django projects.

Installation is simple:

```
pip install django-deploy-probes
```

Then include the URLs in your Django project:

``` python
from django.urls import include, path

urlpatterns = [
    path("probes/", include("django_deploy_probes.urls")),
]
```

That gives you endpoints like:

- /probes/healthz
- /probes/readyz
- /probes/startupz
- /probes/version The first public release is 0.1.0, and it is available on both GitHub and PyPI.

GitHub: [https://github.com/emfpdlzj/django-deploy-probes](https://github.com/emfpdlzj/django-deploy-probes)

PyPI: [https://pypi.org/project/django-deploy-probes/](https://pypi.org/project/django-deploy-probes/)

I’d appreciate feedback from people running Django in production, especially around the endpoint split, default behavior, and whether there are deployment cases I should support better.