# Kibana health check for ingress health check?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-health-check-for-ingress-health-check/289553>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [November 18, 2021, 9:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-health-check-for-ingress-health-check/289553 "2021-11-18T09:13:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![TimWardFS](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/timwardfs/32/65108_2.png) [@TimWardFS](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/TimWardFS)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2021, 9:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-health-check-for-ingress-health-check/289553/1 "2021-11-18T09:13:45Z")

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What's a lightweight endpoint that I can specify for a health check (to be used for `alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/healthcheck-path`)?

I've seen `/health` suggested, but that takes a quarter of a second to send vast quantities of data - basically the login screen - whereas what I'm after is something with a lightweight footprint that just delivers a 200 if Kibana is running, without requiring authentication?

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**Author:** ![brianseeders](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/brianseeders/32/84831_2.png) [@brianseeders](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/brianseeders)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2021, 7:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-health-check-for-ingress-health-check/289553/2 "2021-11-22T19:34:25Z")

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Hey @TimWardFS,

I took a look at what our [Kubernetes operator](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/cloud-on-k8s/1.6/index.html) operator uses for its readinessProbe. It actually uses `/login` at the moment, which you can see here: [cloud-on-k8s/pod.go at master · elastic/cloud-on-k8s · GitHub](https://github.com/elastic/cloud-on-k8s/blob/master/pkg/controller/kibana/pod.go#L66)

There are discussions around and work being done on adding better health endpoints. A good starting point for some of this would be here: [Create health check endpoint · Issue #46984 · elastic/kibana · GitHub](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/46984)

So, it looks like the login page is currently your best bet, but this will be changing in the future.

Brian

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**Author:** ![TimWardFS](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/timwardfs/32/65108_2.png) [@TimWardFS](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/TimWardFS)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2021, 9:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-health-check-for-ingress-health-check/289553/3 "2021-11-23T09:08:19Z")

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Ta. I've been using `/login`, calling it only once every three minutes so not a significant performance hit, but a more lightweight endpoint would look better.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2021, 9:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-health-check-for-ingress-health-check/289553/4 "2021-12-21T09:08:46Z")

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