Getting a Load Balancer Backend Server's Health Details

View the health status details of a backend server for a load balancer.

The primary and standby load balancers both provide health check results that contribute to the health status.

See Health Status Indicators for Load Balancers for descriptions of the load balancer health indicators.

1. On the Load balancers list page, find the load balancer that you want to work with. If you need help finding the list page or the load balancer, see Listing Load Balancers.
2. On the load balancer's details page, select Backend sets.
3. In the Backend sets section, select the backend set that contains the backend server.
4. On the backend set's details page, select Backends.
5. View the health status of the backend server under Health.
Use the oci lb backend-health get command and required parameters to get the health details of a load balancer's backend server:
oci lb backend-health get --backend-name backend_name --backend-set-name backend_set_name --load-balancer-id load_balancer_id [OPTIONS]
For a complete list of parameters and values for CLI commands, see the CLI Command Reference.
Run the GetBackendHealth operation to get the health details a backend set for a load balancer.

Health Details

Here are the health levels and their descriptions:

Critical (red): Neither health check has returned a status of OK.
Warning (yellow): One health check returned a status of OK and one did not.
Pending (yellow): One or both health checks returned a status of Pending or the system was unable to retrieve metrics.
OK (green): The primary and standby load balancer health checks both return a status of OK.

See Health Status Indicators for Load Balancers for descriptions of the load balancer health indicators.