# Health check API

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/health-check-api/119458>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [June 4, 2019, 8:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/health-check-api/119458 "2019-06-04T08:40:47Z")\
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Yes… `/srv/status` is there as a very cheap test, all it does is ensures the apps middleware stack is working.

To catch issues where you auto deploy I would recommend monitoring 200s, if there is a large increase in non 200s alert.

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