---
title: "API health check"
description: "Check if the FlowDrop API is running and responsive.\nThis endpoint is at the root level following industry conventions\nfor Kubernetes liveness/readiness probes and load balancer health checks.\n"
source: https://flowdrop.io/docs/api/system/getHealth
site: FlowDrop documentation
---
# API health check
`GET /health`

Check if the FlowDrop API is running and responsive.
This endpoint is at the root level following industry conventions
for Kubernetes liveness/readiness probes and load balancer health checks.

## Responses

- `200` — API is healthy (`application/json`: object)
- `404` — Resource not found (`application/json`: ErrorResponse)
- `503` — Service unavailable (`application/json`: ErrorResponse)

*Tags: System*