Health Check is pinging every 10 seconds

[CoreyVidal]

Information

I have a Pihole and it shows me what's getting requested on my network. alpine-qbittorrent-openvpn is pinging an external address as a health check over 10,000 times a day.

Current setup

guillaumedsde/alpine-qbittorrent-openvpn:latest Running in the latest Docker via docker-compose, running on Ubuntu 20.04.

docker-compose.yml file or docker run command

version: "3.8"
services:
  alpine-qbittorrent-openvpn:
    volumes:
      - "/my/storage/path/:/downloads"
      - "/path/to/config/directory:/config"
      - "/etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro"
    environment:
      OPENVPN_PROVIDER:
      OPENVPN_CONFIG:
      OPENVPN_USERNAME: $VPN_USERNAME
      OPENVPN_PASSWORD: $VPN_PASSWORD
      PUID: $PUID
      PGID: $PGID
      DNS: $DNS
      LAN: 192.168.1.0/24 # $LOCAL_NETWORK
      HEALTH_CHECK_HOST: bing.com
      TZ: $TZ
    ports:
      - "8080:8080"
    cap_add:
      - NET_ADMIN
    restart: always
    image: guillaumedsde/alpine-qbittorrent-openvpn:latest

Attempted Fix(es)

I stopped the container. It stopped pinging.

[blmhemu]

I think health check should be implemented externally rather than internally so that user can configure check frequency and other params.

[guillaumedsde]

In docker-compose v3 files, you can configure the healthcheck interval would this solve your issue?

[guillaumedsde]

closing this issue, feel free to reopen if the fix above does not work for you :)