Getting a Load Balancer Backend Server's Health Details

View the health status details of a backend server for a load balancer.

The primary and standby load balancers both provide health check results that contribute to the health status.

See Health Status Indicators for Load Balancers for descriptions of the load balancer health indicators.

1. Open the navigation menu, click Networking, and then click Load balancers. Click Load balancer. The Load balancers page appears.
2. Select the Compartment from the list. All load balancers in that compartment are listed in tabular form.
3. Select a State from the list to limit the load balancers displayed to that state.
4. Select the load balancer containing the backend servers that you want to list. Its Details page appears.
5. Click Backend sets under Resources. The Backend sets list appears. All backend sets are listed in tabular form.
6. Click the backend set whose details you want to get. Its Details page appears.
7. Click Backends under Resources. The Backends list appears. All backend servers are listed in tabular form.
8. View the health status of the backend server under Health.
Use the oci lb backend-health get command and required parameters to get the health details of a load balancer's backend server:
```
oci lb backend-health get --backend-name backend_name --backend-set-name backend_set_name --load-balancer-id load_balancer_id [OPTIONS]
```
For a complete list of parameters and values for CLI commands, see the CLI Command Reference.
Run the GetBackendHealth operation to get the health details a backend set for a load balancer.

Health Details

Here are the health levels and their descriptions:

Critical (red): Neither health check has returned a status of OK.
Warning (yellow): One health check returned a status of OK and one did not.
Pending (yellow): One or both health checks returned a status of Pending or the system was unable to retrieve metrics.
OK (green): The primary and standby load balancer health checks both return a status of OK.

See Health Status Indicators for Load Balancers for descriptions of the load balancer health indicators.