Health
This endpoint lets a load balancer or uptime monitor check that the Data service is up. It is unauthenticated and returns a fixed marker; it does not open a database connection.
Check service liveness
GET /data-api/v1/health/live
Returns a marker confirming the service is running.
A lightweight liveness check. It returns a fixed healthy marker whenever the service can answer the request, and takes no parameters.
- Authentication
- None
Parameters
No parameters.
Returns
Returns a status marker in data.
Request
curl "$VDF_BASE_URL/data-api/v1/health/live"const response = await fetch(`${process.env.VDF_BASE_URL}/data-api/v1/health/live`);
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`Request failed with status ${response.status}`);
const data = await response.json();import os
import requests
response = requests.get(
f"{os.environ['VDF_BASE_URL']}/data-api/v1/health/live",
timeout=30,
)
response.raise_for_status()
data = response.json() Response 200
{
"success": true,
"data": {
"status": "healthy",
"service": "vdf-data-backend"
}
}