Health check — glossary
TL;DR
Synthetic or passive checks proving a service can serve traffic.
Key facts
- Term
- Health check
TL;DR
A health check is a synthetic or passive probe that proves a service can serve traffic. Load balancers and deploy pipelines use health checks to decide whether to send users to an instance.
Health gating
Health-gated deployments keep traffic on the previous release until post-deploy checks pass — preventing a green CI build from taking production offline.
Read health-gated deployments explained.