[[health]]
= Health (`health`)

The `health` endpoint provides detailed information about the health of the application.



[[health-retrieving]]
== Retrieving the Health

To retrieve the health of the application, make a `GET` request to `/actuator/health`,
as shown in the following curl-based example:

include::{snippets}health/curl-request.adoc[]

The resulting response is similar to the following:

include::{snippets}health/http-response.adoc[]



[[health-retrieving-response-structure]]
=== Response Structure

The response contains details of the health of the application. The following table
describes the structure of the response:

[cols="2,1,3"]
include::{snippets}health/response-fields.adoc[]
