Health Checks
Everything on SkillVeris tagged Health Checks — collected across the glossary, study notes, blog, and cheat sheets.
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What is a Load Balancer in Networking?
A load balancer is a device or service that sits in front of a pool of backend servers and distributes incoming client requests across them using a chosen algo…
What is Load Balancing?
Load balancing is the practice of distributing incoming network traffic across multiple backend servers so no single server is overwhelmed, improving availabil…
What are Kubernetes Liveness and Readiness Probes?
A liveness probe tells Kubernetes whether a container is still healthy and should keep running — failing it triggers a container restart — while a readiness pr…
What is a Load Balancer and How Does it Work?
A load balancer is a component that sits in front of a pool of backend servers and distributes incoming traffic across them using a chosen algorithm, so no sin…
What is a Service Registry and Why Do Microservices Need One?
A service registry is a centralized, dynamically updated directory that records the network location (IP and port) of every currently running instance of every…
What is Consul and How is it Used in DevOps?
Consul is a distributed service networking tool from HashiCorp that provides service discovery, health checking, a distributed key-value store, and service mes…
Blackbox vs Whitebox Monitoring
Blackbox monitoring observes a system purely from the outside, testing observable behavior like whether an HTTP endpoint responds successfully, without any kno…