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Learn ASP.NET Core health checks step by step: liveness, readiness, SQL Server, Redis, custom checks, and Kubernetes probes. Monitor your production app today. Your app returned HTTP 200 on the home page, so everything is fine — right? Not necessarily. The database connection pool could be exhausted, Redis could be unreachable, and a downstream API could be timing out while your load balancer happily keeps sending traffic your way. ASP.NET Core health checks solve exactly this problem: they give orchestrators, load balancers, and monitoring tools a reliable, machine-readable answer to the question "is this instance actually able to serve requests?" In this guide you'll learn how to add health checks to ASP.NET Core, wire up liveness and readiness endpoints, check SQL Server and Redis, write custom health checks in C#, and integrate everything with Kubernetes and Docker. What Are ASP.NET Core Health Checks? Health checks are small pieces of code that report the statu...