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# Health Live

GET /v1/health/live

Handler for liveness endpoint.

Reference: https://docs.nvidia.com/nim/harmonizer/openapi/health-live-v-1-health-live-get

## Response

### 200

Service is live

- `message` (string, required) — The message of the health response.
- `object` (string, optional, default: health.response) — The object of the health response.
- `status` (string, optional, nullable) — The status of the health response for backwards compatibility.

## Errors

### 503 Service Unavailable Error

Service is not live

- `error` (NIMErrorDetail, required) — Structured error details.

## Types

### NIMErrorDetail

Structured details returned in the HTTP ``error`` envelope.

- `message` (string, required) — Human-readable error message.
- `type` (string, required) — Stable error type name.
- `code` (integer, required) — HTTP status code associated with the error.

## Examples

**Response**

```json
{
  "message": "string",
  "object": "health.response",
  "status": "string"
}
```

**SDK Code**

```python
import requests

url = "https://api.example.com/v1/health/live"

response = requests.get(url)

print(response.json())
```

```javascript
const url = 'https://api.example.com/v1/health/live';
const options = {method: 'GET'};

try {
  const response = await fetch(url, options);
  const data = await response.json();
  console.log(data);
} catch (error) {
  console.error(error);
}
```

```go
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.example.com/v1/health/live"

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))

}
```

```ruby
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.example.com/v1/health/live")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
```

```java
import com.mashape.unirest.http.HttpResponse;
import com.mashape.unirest.http.Unirest;

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://api.example.com/v1/health/live")
  .asString();
```

```php
<?php
require_once('vendor/autoload.php');

$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();

$response = $client->request('GET', 'https://api.example.com/v1/health/live');

echo $response->getBody();
```

```csharp
using RestSharp;

var client = new RestClient("https://api.example.com/v1/health/live");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.GET);
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
```

```swift
import Foundation

let request = NSMutableURLRequest(url: NSURL(string: "https://api.example.com/v1/health/live")! as URL,
                                        cachePolicy: .useProtocolCachePolicy,
                                    timeoutInterval: 10.0)
request.httpMethod = "GET"

let session = URLSession.shared
let dataTask = session.dataTask(with: request as URLRequest, completionHandler: { (data, response, error) -> Void in
  if (error != nil) {
    print(error as Any)
  } else {
    let httpResponse = response as? HTTPURLResponse
    print(httpResponse)
  }
})

dataTask.resume()
```