Health Check
An endpoint or mechanism that reports the operational status of a service, used by load balancers and orchestrators to route traffic away from unhealthy instances.
Related Protocols
Mentioned in Guides
Debugging 503 Service Unavailable Errors in Production
Debugging & Troubleshooting
DNS-Based Failover and High Availability
DNS & Networking
Health Check Endpoint Design Guide
Error Handling Patterns
ASP.NET Core Error Handling Guide
Framework Cookbooks
Load Balancing Strategies for APIs
Performance & Optimization