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.. _admin_server:
Admin Server
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PostgREST provides an admin server that can be enabled by setting :ref:`admin-server-port` to the port number of your preference.
.. _health_check:
Health Check
============
You can enable a health check to verify if PostgREST is available for client requests. Also to check the status of its internal state.
Two endpoints ``live`` and ``ready`` will then be available.
.. important::
If you have a machine with multiple network interfaces and multiple PostgREST instances in the same port, you need to specify a unique :ref:`hostname <server-host>`
in the configuration of each PostgREST instance for the health check to work correctly. Don't use the special values(``!4``, ``*``, etc) in this case because the health check
could report a false positive.
Live
----
The ``live`` endpoint verifies if PostgREST is running on its configured port. A request will return ``200 OK`` if PostgREST is alive or ``503`` otherwise.
For instance, to verify if PostgREST is running while the ``admin-server-port`` is set to ``3001``:
.. code-block:: bash
curl -I "http://localhost:3001/live"
.. code-block:: http
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Ready
-----
In addition, the ``ready`` endpoint checks the state of the :ref:`connection_pool` and the :ref:`schema_cache`. A request will return ``200 OK`` if both are good or ``503`` if not.