django-ebhealthcheck
Django app to add an instance's public IP to ALLOWED_HOSTS for Elastic Beanstalk's health check system
Decision gist · record as of 2026-08-14
Yes, if you are running Django on AWS Elastic Beanstalk and experiencing health check failures due to ALLOWED_HOSTS validation. It solves a narrow, well-defined problem with minimal dependencies and no security vulnerabilities. The dormant maintenance status is not a concern for a stable, single-purpose utility. Install it if this is your deployment model; skip it otherwise.AI-flagged interpretation of the facts on this page — verify before relying
Before you install
- Requires Django to be installed and configured; IMDSv2 support requires version 2.0.0 or higher (use version 1.x for IMDSv1-only environments).
- Installation is straightforward with low friction—a single wheel dependency on requests.
- The package is dormant (last release August 2022, last commit October 2023) but marked Production/Stable; it solves a narrow, stable problem unlikely to require frequent updates.
License · maintenance · safety
BSD (permissive) — BSD permissive license imposes no significant restrictions; you may use, modify, and distribute the package freely in commercial and private projects.
last release 2022-08-22 (1453 days) · last repo commit 2023-10-18 · 35 stars
0 known vulnerabilities (OSV.dev, 2026-08-14) · 80,208 downloads/mo, #14,309 on PyPI
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pip install django-ebhealthcheck
# In settings.py INSTALLED_APPS:
INSTALLED_APPS = [
...
'ebhealthcheck.apps.EBHealthCheckConfig',
...
]- Whether the package works with current Django versions (latest release was August 2022).
- Compatibility with Python versions beyond what the fact sheet specifies.
What it is and what it does
django-ebhealthcheck is a Django application that solves a specific problem with AWS Elastic Beanstalk's health check system. When Elastic Beanstalk performs health checks on load-balanced instances, it uses the instance's public IP as the request's host header. By default, Django rejects requests with unrecognized host headers and returns a 400 Bad Request error, causing health checks to fail. This package intercepts that flow at application startup and dynamically adds the instance's public IP to Django's ALLOWED_HOSTS setting, allowing health checks to succeed.
The package depends only on requests and installs as a simple Django app configuration. Version 2.0.0 and later support IMDSv2 (the newer AWS metadata service); earlier versions support IMDSv1. It is marked Production/Stable but has been dormant since mid-2022, suggesting the problem it solves is stable and rarely needs changes.
Use it for
- Running a Django application on AWS Elastic Beanstalk without manually managing ALLOWED_HOSTS for each instance's public IP.
- Preventing health check failures caused by Django rejecting requests with unrecognized host headers in load-balanced environments.
- Automating host validation on Elastic Beanstalk deployments to reduce configuration overhead and deployment errors.
Worth the install?
AI-flagged interpretation of the facts on this page. Verify before relying on it.
Yes, if you are running Django on AWS Elastic Beanstalk and experiencing health check failures due to ALLOWED_HOSTS validation.
It solves a narrow, well-defined problem with minimal dependencies and no security vulnerabilities. The dormant maintenance status is not a concern for a stable, single-purpose utility. Install it if this is your deployment model; skip it otherwise.
Install
django-ebhealthcheck on PyPI
Before you install
Installation is straightforward with low friction—a single wheel dependency on requests. The package is dormant (last release August 2022, last commit October 2023) but marked Production/Stable; it solves a narrow, stable problem unlikely to require frequent updates.
Requires Django to be installed and configured; IMDSv2 support requires version 2.0.0 or higher (use version 1.x for IMDSv1-only environments).
License in practice
BSD permissive license imposes no significant restrictions; you may use, modify, and distribute the package freely in commercial and private projects.
Quickstart
pip install django-ebhealthcheck
# In settings.py INSTALLED_APPS:
INSTALLED_APPS = [
...
'ebhealthcheck.apps.EBHealthCheckConfig',
...
]Verify before relying
- Whether the package works with current Django versions (latest release was August 2022).
- Compatibility with Python versions beyond what the fact sheet specifies.
Package facts
| License | BSD permissive |
| Python support | Not specified |
| Install friction | Low. Pure-Python wheel |
| Runtime dependencies | 1 packagerequests |
| Maintenance | Dormant 1,453 days since the last release |
| Last repo commit | |
| First released | |
| Downloads | 80,208 / month, #14,309 on PyPI 30-day window, as of 2026-08-14 |
| Known vulnerabilities | None known OSV.dev, checked 2026-08-14 |
| Classifiers | Development Status :: 5 - Production/StableFramework :: DjangoIntended Audience :: DevelopersLicense :: OSI Approved :: BSD LicenseOperating System :: OS IndependentProgramming Language :: PythonTopic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules |
Evidence: django_ebhealthcheck-2.0.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl
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