Application-level health checks

For application security, health checks provide a basic way to ensure your application's infrastructure availability. Microsoft offers Health Checks Middleware and libraries for .NET Core. We recommend that you use these when you’re developing your application. You can use health checks with monitoring services such as Amazon CloudWatch or container orchestrators such as Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS). For more information about monitoring health checks by using CloudWatch, see the Amazon Route 53 documentation. For more information about configuring health checks in ASP.NET Core, see the Microsoft documentation.