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Health Check

The /actuator/health endpoint is used to check the health or state of the running application. It’s usually exercised by monitoring software to alert us if the running instance goes down or gets unhealthy for other reasons, e.g., connectivity issues with our DB, lack of disk space, etc.

The actuator health check endpoint can be used to test the installation. Once DB2Rest has been installed, the following GET requests will inform the status of the server.


curl --request GET \
--url http://[IP_ADDRESS]:8080/actuator/health \
--header 'User-Agent: insomnia/8.6.1'


The actuator health check service in DB2Rest will return the following response:

HTTP/1.1 200
Content-Type: application/json
Transfer-Encoding: chunked

{
	"status": "UP"
}

The status value of UP confirms that the service is up and running.