The process of monitoring the health and performance of

individual microservices in a system.

▪ The failure of a single microservice can have cascading

effects on the rest of the system, important to identify and

address issues.

▪ What is Health Checks for microservices ?

▪ Health Checks for microservices are a way to monitor the

health and performance of individual microservices in a

system.

▪ Health checks used to determine whether a microservice is

functioning properly and is able to handle requests.

▪ There are 3 types of health checks that can be used for

microservices.

https://openliberty.io/docs/latest/health-check-microservices.html