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Health Check Endpoint

An endpoint a platform probes to decide whether an instance should receive traffic (readiness) or be restarted (liveness). Conflating the two, or checking downstream dependencies in a liveness probe, causes restart cascades during partial outages.

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How to Add Health Checks in ASP.NET Core

Health checks are a system-monitoring mechanism by which an application exposes its own operational status, and the status of the external dependencies it relies on, through a queryable endpoint that…