REST Resource: regionHealthSources

Resource: HealthSource

Represents a health source.

A health source resource specifies the source resources and the health aggregation policy applied to the source resources to determine the aggregated health status.

JSON representation
{"kind":string,"id":string,"creationTimestamp":string,"name":string,"description":string,"selfLink":string,"selfLinkWithId":string,"region":string,"sourceType":enum,"sources":[string],"healthAggregationPolicy":string,"fingerprint":string}
Fields
kind

string

[Output Only] Type of the resource. Alwayscompute#healthSource for health sources.

id

string (uint64 format)

[Output Only] A unique identifier for this resource type. The server generates this identifier.

creationTimestamp

string

[Output Only] Creation timestamp inRFC3339 text format.

name

string

Name of the resource. Provided by the client when the resource is created. The name must be 1-63 characters long, and comply withRFC1035. Specifically, the name must be 1-63 characters long and match the regular expression[a-z]([-a-z0-9]*[a-z0-9])? which means the first character must be a lowercase letter, and all following characters must be a dash, lowercase letter, or digit, except the last character, which cannot be a dash.

description

string

An optional description of this resource. Provide this property when you create the resource.

selfLink

string

[Output Only] Server-defined URL for the resource.

selfLinkWithId

string

[Output Only] Server-defined URL with id for the resource.

region

string

[Output Only] URL of the region where the health source resides. This field applies only to the regional resource. You must specify this field as part of the HTTP request URL. It is not settable as a field in the request body.

sourceType

enum

Specifies the type of theHealthSource. The only allowed value isBACKEND_SERVICE. Must be specified when theHealthSource is created, and cannot be mutated.

sources[]

string

URLs to the source resources. Must be size 1. Must be aBackendService if thesourceType isBACKEND_SERVICE. TheBackendService must have load balancing schemeINTERNAL orINTERNAL_MANAGED and must be regional and in the same region as theHealthSource (cross-region deployment forINTERNAL_MANAGED is not supported). TheBackendService may use only IGs, MIGs, or NEGs of typeGCE_VM_IP orGCE_VM_IP_PORT. TheBackendService may not usehaPolicy. Can be mutated.

healthAggregationPolicy

string

URL to theHealthAggregationPolicy resource. Must be set. Must be regional and in the same region as theHealthSource. Can be mutated.

fingerprint

string (bytes format)

Fingerprint of this resource. A hash of the contents stored in this object. This field is used in optimistic locking. This field will be ignored when inserting aHealthSource. An up-to-date fingerprint must be provided in order to patch the HealthSource; Otherwise, the request will fail with error412 conditionNotMet. To see the latest fingerprint, make aget() request to retrieve the HealthSource.

A base64-encoded string.

Methods

aggregatedList

 Retrieves the list of allHealthSource resources (all regional) available to the specified project.

delete

 Deletes the specified HealthSource in the given region

get

 Returns the specified HealthSource resource in the given region.

insert

 Create a HealthSource in the specified project in the given region using the parameters that are included in the request.

list

 Lists the HealthSources for a project in the given region.

patch

 Updates the specified regionalHealthSource resource with the data included in the request.

testIamPermissions

 Returns permissions that a caller has on the specified resource.

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Last updated 2025-10-08 UTC.