Health Check
Also called: Health Probe, Service Health Check
A mechanism that periodically verifies whether a service, application, model endpoint, or AI agent is operational, responsive, and able to perform its intended functions, enabling orchestration systems to detect failures and route traffic appropriately.
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Related terms
Service Discovery
The mechanism by which autonomous agents or network services automatically locate and identify available endpoints.
Load BalancingThe practice of distributing workloads or requests across multiple computing resources to improve scalability, availability, and resource utilization.
AutoscalingThe automatic adjustment of computing resources in response to changing workloads to optimize performance, availability, and cost efficiency.