Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

Getting a Load Balancer Backend Set's Health Details

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

    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. Click the load balancer whose backend set you want to edit. The load balancer's 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 you want to edit. The backend set's Details page appears.
    7. View the Overall and Backend health details. See Getting a Load Balancer Backend Set's Health Details for descriptions of the backend set health indicators.

  • Use the oci lb backend-set-health get command and required parameters to get a load balancer's backend set health details:

    oci lb backend-set-health get --backend-set-name backend_set_name --load-balancer-id load-balancer_id [OPTIONS]

    See the CLI online help for a list of options:

    oci lb backend-set-health get --help

    For a complete list of parameters and values for CLI commands, see the CLI Command Reference.

    See Getting a Load Balancer Backend Set's Health Details for descriptions of the backend set health indicators.

  • Run the GetBackendSetHealth 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): Fewer than half of the backend set's backend servers return a status of OK.

  • Warning (yellow): Both of the following conditions are true:

    • Half or more of the backend set's backend servers return a status of OK.

    • At least one backend server returns a status of Warning, Critical, Pending, or Incomplete.

  • Incomplete (yellow): The backend set does not have any backends attached.

  • Pending (yellow): At least one of the following conditions is true:

    • More than half of the backend set's backend servers return a status of Pending.

    • The system could not retrieve metrics for any reason.

  • OK (green): All backend servers in the backend set return a status of OK.