Health API reference

Detailed documentation on the health API

Dapr provides health checking probes that can be used as readiness or liveness of Dapr and for initialization readiness from SDKs.

Get Dapr health state

Gets the health state for Dapr by either:

  • Check for sidecar health
  • Check for the sidecar health, including component readiness, used during initialization.

Wait for Dapr HTTP port to become available

Wait for all components to be initialized, the Dapr HTTP port to be available and the app channel is initialized. For example, this endpoint is used with Kubernetes liveness probes.

HTTP Request

GET http://localhost:<daprPort>/v1.0/healthz

HTTP Response Codes

Code Description
204 Dapr is healthy
500 Dapr is not healthy

URL Parameters

Parameter Description
daprPort The Dapr port

Examples

curl -i http://localhost:3500/v1.0/healthz

Wait for specific health check against /outbound path

Wait for all components to be initialized, the Dapr HTTP port to be available, however the app channel is not yet established. This endpoint enables your application to perform calls on the Dapr sidecar APIs before the app channel is initalized, for example reading secrets with the secrets API. For example used in the Dapr SDKs waitForSidecar method (for example .NET and Java SDKs) to check sidecar is initialized correctly ready for any calls.

For example, the Java SDK and the .NET SDK uses this endpoint for initialization.

Currently, the v1.0/healthz/outbound endpoint is supported in the:

HTTP Request

GET http://localhost:<daprPort>/v1.0/healthz/outbound

HTTP Response Codes

Code Description
204 Dapr is healthy
500 Dapr is not healthy

URL Parameters

Parameter Description
daprPort The Dapr port

Examples

curl -i http://localhost:3500/v1.0/healthz/outbound