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May 26, 2019
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Russell Dickenson
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Evan Read
May 26, 2019
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# Health Check
---
type
:
concepts, howto
---
> **Notes:**
# Health Check
> NOTE: **Note:**
>
> - Liveness and readiness probes were [introduced][ce-10416] in GitLab 9.1.
> - The `health_check` endpoint was [introduced][ce-3888] in GitLab 8.8 and was
> be deprecated in GitLab 9.1.
> - [Access token](#access-token-deprecated) has been deprecated in GitLab 9.4
> in favor of [IP whitelist](#ip-whitelist)
> in favor of [IP whitelist](#ip-whitelist)
.
GitLab provides liveness and readiness probes to indicate service health and
reachability to required services. These probes report on the status of the
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@@ -17,8 +21,7 @@ traffic until the system is ready or restart the container as needed.
## IP whitelist
To access monitoring resources, the requesting client IP needs to be included in a whitelist.
[
Read how to add IPs to a whitelist for the monitoring endpoints
][
admin
]
.
For details, see
[
how to add IPs to a whitelist for the monitoring endpoints
](
../../../administration/monitoring/ip_whitelist.md
)
.
## Using the endpoints
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@@ -87,9 +90,8 @@ will return a valid successful HTTP status code, and a `success` message.
## Access token (Deprecated)
>**Note:**
Access token has been deprecated in GitLab 9.4
in favor of
[
IP whitelist
](
#ip-whitelist
)
> NOTE: **Note:**
> Access token has been deprecated in GitLab 9.4 in favor of [IP whitelist](#ip-whitelist).
An access token needs to be provided while accessing the probe endpoints. The current
accepted token can be found under the
**Admin area ➔ Monitoring ➔ Health check**
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@@ -103,10 +105,21 @@ The access token can be passed as a URL parameter:
https://gitlab.example.com/-/readiness?token=ACCESS_TOKEN
```
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This is important to minimize requests for support, and to avoid doc comments with
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Each scenario can be a third-level heading, e.g.
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.
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[
ce-10416
]:
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/10416
[
ce-3888
]:
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/3888
[
pingdom
]:
https://www.pingdom.com
[
nagios-health
]:
https://nagios-plugins.org/doc/man/check_http.html
[
newrelic-health
]:
https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/alerts/alert-policies/downtime-alerts/availability-monitoring
[
kubernetes
]:
https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/configure-liveness-readiness-probes/
\ No newline at end of file
[
admin
]:
../../../administration/monitoring/ip_whitelist.md
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