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# GET /health

> Bridger Gateway liveness health-check endpoint.

The lightest endpoint for checking whether the service has started up correctly.
It requires no authentication and can be used directly for load balancers and Kubernetes liveness probes.

## Request

```http theme={null}
GET /health
```

* Authentication: none
* Content-Type: not applicable

## Response 200

```json theme={null}
{
  "status": "healthy",
  "service": "mcp-gateway",
  "timestamp": "2026-02-09T05:00:00.000Z"
}
```

| Field       | Type        | Description                        |
| ----------- | ----------- | ---------------------------------- |
| `status`    | `"healthy"` | Started up normally                |
| `service`   | string      | Service identifier (`mcp-gateway`) |
| `timestamp` | ISO 8601    | Response generation time           |

## Related endpoints

| Endpoint               | Auth    | Description                                                                                         |
| ---------------------- | ------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `GET /health`          | none    | Liveness — always returns `status: healthy`                                                         |
| `GET /health/ready`    | none    | Readiness — checks dependencies like DB and Redis. `200 healthy` when OK, `503 degraded` on failure |
| `GET /health/detailed` | API Key | Detailed report including per-dependency status and latency (latencyMs)                             |

`/health/ready` response example (dependency check):

```json theme={null}
{
  "status": "healthy",
  "service": "mcp-gateway",
  "timestamp": "2026-02-09T05:00:00.000Z",
  "checks": {
    "database": { "status": "healthy", "latencyMs": 3 },
    "redis": { "status": "healthy", "latencyMs": 1 }
  }
}
```

## cURL

```bash theme={null}
curl https://mcp.datari.kr/health
```

## Kubernetes probe example

```yaml theme={null}
livenessProbe:
  httpGet:
    path: /health
    port: 8080
  initialDelaySeconds: 5
  periodSeconds: 10
readinessProbe:
  httpGet:
    path: /health/ready
    port: 8080
  initialDelaySeconds: 5
  periodSeconds: 5
```