REST Resource: httpHealthChecks

Resource: HttpHealthCheck

Represents a legacy HTTP Health Check resource.

Legacy HTTP health checks are now only required by target pool-based network load balancers. For all other load balancers, including backend service-based network load balancers, and for managed instance group auto-healing, you must use modern (non-legacy) health checks.

For more information, seeHealth checks overview.

JSON representation
{"kind":string,"id":string,"creationTimestamp":string,"name":string,"description":string,"host":string,"requestPath":string,"port":integer,"checkIntervalSec":integer,"timeoutSec":integer,"unhealthyThreshold":integer,"healthyThreshold":integer,"selfLink":string}
Fields
kind

string

[Output Only] Type of the resource. Alwayscompute#httpHealthCheck for HTTP health checks.

id

string (uint64 format)

[Output Only] The unique identifier for the resource. This identifier is defined by the server.

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.

host

string

The value of the host header in the HTTP health check request. If left empty (default value), the public IP on behalf of which this health check is performed will be used.

requestPath

string

The request path of the HTTP health check request. The default value is/. This field does not support query parameters. Must comply withRFC3986.

port

integer

The TCP port number for the HTTP health check request. The default value is80.

checkIntervalSec

integer

How often (in seconds) to send a health check. The default value is5 seconds.

timeoutSec

integer

How long (in seconds) to wait before claiming failure. The default value is5 seconds. It is invalid fortimeoutSec to have greater value thancheckIntervalSec.

unhealthyThreshold

integer

A so-far healthy instance will be marked unhealthy after this many consecutive failures. The default value is2.

healthyThreshold

integer

A so-far unhealthy instance will be marked healthy after this many consecutive successes. The default value is2.

selfLink

string

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

Methods

delete

 Deletes the specified HttpHealthCheck resource.

get

 Returns the specified HttpHealthCheck resource.

insert

 Creates a HttpHealthCheck resource in the specified project using the data included in the request.

list

 Retrieves the list of HttpHealthCheck resources available to the specified project.

patch

 Updates a HttpHealthCheck resource in the specified project using the data included in the request.

update

 Updates a HttpHealthCheck resource in the specified project using the data included in the request.

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Last updated 2025-07-28 UTC.