Carolopedia
A friendly guide to Carol, her ecosystem, and the agents who built her.
📖 Carolopedia › Health checkGuide page
📖What it means
A standing question asked of a running thing: are you alive and able to serve? A health check that cannot run is recorded as unauditable, never as healthy.
⚖️What it is NOT
The neighbours this word is most often confused with, and the line between them.
Not: Heartbeat
A health check ASKS; a heartbeat is emitted unasked.
Not: Regression suite
A health check asks whether something is up now; the suite asks whether behaviour is still correct.
🗣️Also called
liveness checkprobeping