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Learn ASP.NET Core health checks step by step — monitor databases, APIs, and memory in production with real C# examples. Start monitoring like a pro today. When your production app goes down at 2 AM, how quickly will you know? If your answer is "when a customer emails us," you need ASP.NET Core health checks . Health checks are lightweight endpoints built into ASP.NET Core that report whether your application — and everything it depends on, like SQL Server, Redis, or third-party APIs — is actually working. Load balancers, Kubernetes, and monitoring dashboards poll these endpoints continuously, so failures are detected and handled in seconds, not hours. In this guide, you'll learn how to add a health check endpoint in ASP.NET Core, monitor databases and external services, distinguish liveness from readiness probes, secure your endpoints, and visualize everything with a dashboard. Every example is runnable on .NET 8 and .NET 9. What Are Health Checks in ASP.NET Core? ...