Method: regionBackendServices.getHealth

Gets the most recent health check results for this regional BackendService.

HTTP request

POST https://compute.googleapis.com/compute/beta/projects/{project}/regions/{region}/backendServices/{backendService}/getHealth

The URL uses gRPC Transcoding syntax.

Path parameters

Parameters
project

string

region

string

Name of the region scoping this request.

backendService

string

Name of the BackendService resource for which to get health.

Request body

The request body contains data with the following structure:

JSON representation
{
  "group": string
}
Fields
group

string

A URI referencing one of the instance groups or network endpoint groups listed in the backend service.

Response body

If successful, the response body contains data with the following structure:

JSON representation
{
  "kind": string,
  "healthStatus": [
    {
      "ipAddress": string,
      "ipv6Address": string,
      "port": integer,
      "instance": string,
      "healthState": enum,
      "ipv6HealthState": enum,
      "annotations": {
        string: string,
        ...
      },
      "weight": string,
      "weightError": enum,
      "forwardingRuleIp": string,
      "forwardingRule": string
    }
  ],
  "annotations": {
    string: string,
    ...
  }
}
Fields
kind

string

[Output Only] Type of resource. Always compute#backendServiceGroupHealth for the health of backend services.

healthStatus[]

object

Health state of the backend instances or endpoints in requested instance or network endpoint group, determined based on configured health checks.

healthStatus[].ipAddress

string

For target pool based Network Load Balancing, it indicates the forwarding rule's IP address assigned to this instance. For other types of load balancing, the field indicates VM internal ip.

healthStatus[].ipv6Address

string

healthStatus[].port

integer

The named port of the instance group, not necessarily the port that is health-checked.

healthStatus[].instance

string

URL of the instance resource.

healthStatus[].healthState

enum

Health state of the IPv4 address of the instance.

healthStatus[].ipv6HealthState

enum

Health state of the IPv6 address of the instance.

healthStatus[].annotations

map (key: string, value: string)

Metadata defined as annotations for network endpoint.

healthStatus[].weight

string

healthStatus[].weightError

enum

healthStatus[].forwardingRuleIp

string

A forwarding rule IP address assigned to this instance.

healthStatus[].forwardingRule

string

URL of the forwarding rule associated with the health status of the instance.

annotations

map (key: string, value: string)

Metadata defined as annotations on the network endpoint group.

Authorization scopes

Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/compute.readonly
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/compute
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

IAM Permissions

In addition to any permissions specified on the fields above, authorization requires one or more of the following IAM permissions:

  • compute.regionBackendServices.get

To find predefined roles that contain those permissions, see Compute Engine IAM Roles.