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# Sidekiq Health Check **(FREE SELF)**
GitLab provides liveness and readiness probes to indicate service health and
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reachability to the Sidekiq cluster. These endpoints
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[can be provided to schedulers like Kubernetes ](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/configure-liveness-readiness-startup-probes/ )
to hold traffic until the system is ready or restart the container as needed.
The health check server can be set up when [configuring Sidekiq ](sidekiq.md ).
## Readiness
The readiness probe checks whether the Sidekiq workers are ready to process jobs.
```plaintext
GET /readiness
```
Assuming you set up Sidekiq's address and port to be `localhost` and `8092` respectively,
here's an example request:
```shell
curl "http://localhost:8092/readiness"
```
On success, the endpoint returns a `200` HTTP status code, and a response like the following:
```json
{
"status": "ok"
}
```
## Liveness
Checks whether the Sidekiq cluster is running.
```plaintext
GET /liveness
```
Assuming you set up Sidekiq's address and port to be `localhost` and `8092` respectively,
here's an example request:
```shell
curl "http://localhost:8092/liveness"
```
On success, the endpoint returns a `200` HTTP status code, and a response like the following:
```json
{
"status": "ok"
}
```
