Health check in .NET 6.0(Part 1)

Introduction:

In .NET Core 6.0, Microsoft has introduced Health Checks — a new feature that allows developers to check the health of their application’s components. This feature is especially useful in microservices architectures where there are many services communicating with each other. In this blog post, we will discuss how to use Health Checks in .NET Core 6.0.

What is Health Check?

Health Check is a feature that allows you to check the health of various components of your application, including databases, caches, and other external services. It provides a mechanism for monitoring the health of your application and quickly identifying problems.

Using Health Check in .NET Core 6.0:

Using Health Checks in .NET Core 6.0 is very simple. The first step is to add the Health Checks NuGet package to your project:

dotnet add package Microsoft.AspNetCore.Diagnostics.HealthChecks

Once you have added the package, you can configure the Health Check in the ConfigureServices method of your Startup.cs file:

public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
    services.AddHealthChecks();
}

This will add the default Health Check middleware to your application.

Now, you can create a health check endpoint in your application by adding the following code to the Configure method of your Startup.cs file: