Category: Web API

Previously I have been writing health check controllers by hand. Now .netCore has a simple way of managing service health checks via middleware. You can test everything is operational all the way down to the database. You can even write your own custom checks in a few lines. A simple service operational health check can be enabled by adding two lines to your startup.cs file. One in the services configuration and one in the application configuration. The “/health” parameter specifies the route to be used for the health check. When navigating to the route, a message will be displayed on…