MCP Academy · Lesson

Health Checks & Restarts

Keep the service alive and self-healing.

Servers Need a Pulse

A deployed server can hang or crash silently. A health check is a simple probe that answers the question: are you still alive? 🩺

Expose a Health Endpoint

The classic pattern is a tiny route, often /health, that returns 200 OK when the server is ready to handle work.

GET /health  ->  200 OK

All lessons in this course

  1. Package the Server in Docker
  2. Run Behind a Reverse Proxy
  3. Health Checks & Restarts
  4. Connect Remote Clients
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