# GET /api/public/health

> Health check

A liveness check: it answers `200` as long as the service is running and takes requests. It does not check
Rivr's dependencies, and it does not prove that the instance has finished starting. Use
`GET /api/public/health/ready` for that.

- Surface: `/api/public` · operationId `getHealth` · Group: Health
- Authorisation: No token
- Organisation key: no capability: the route needs no token, and the key's token isn't sent on
- The spec: https://developers.rivr.io/openapi/api-public.json
- The spec's introduction: https://developers.rivr.io/reference/api-public.md
- Page in the portal: https://developers.rivr.io/reference/api-public/getHealth

The examples target the sandbox (`https://api.test.rivr.io`) and need test credentials.

## Responses

### 200

OK

## Example request

```bash
curl -X GET https://api.test.rivr.io/api/public/health
```