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Health Endpoint - CI/CD Glossary Definition

A health endpoint is a URL that reports whether a service is up, used to gate traffic during deploys.

A health endpoint is a URL (often /health) that reports whether a service is running, used by load balancers and deploy pipelines to gate traffic. It typically returns 200 when healthy.

Deploy pipelines poll the health endpoint after rollout and only shift traffic once it returns 200. A failing health check triggers rollback in many CD systems.

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