Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

Getting a Load Balancer's Health Details

View the health status details for a load balancer.

The following table lists the health status indicators and their meanings.

Level

Color

Description

Critical

Red

At least one backend set associated with the load balancer returns a status of Critical.

Warning

Yellow

All the following conditions are true:

  • At least one backend set associated with the load balancer returns a status of Warning or Pending.

  • No backend sets return a status of Critical.

  • The load balancer life-cycle state is Active.

Incomplete

Yellow

Any one of the following conditions is true:

  • No backend sets are defined for the load balancer.

  • All the following conditions are true:

    • More than half of the backend sets associated with the load balancer return a status of Incomplete.

    • None of the backend sets return a status of Warning or Critical.

    • The load balancer life-cycle state is Active.

Pending

Yellow

Any one of the following conditions is true:

  • The load balancer life-cycle state is not Active.

  • All the following conditions are true:

    • More than half of the backend sets associated with the load balancer return a status of Pending.

    • None of the backend sets return a status of Warning or Critical.

    • The load balancer life-cycle state is Active.

  • The system could not retrieve metrics for any reason.

OK

Green

All backend sets associated with the load balancer return a status of OK.
    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 that you want to edit. The load balancer's Details page appears.
    5. View the Overall health and Backend sets health indicators.

  • Use the oci lb load-balancer-health get command and required parameters to view the health details for a load balancer:

    oci lb load-balancer-health get --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 GetLoadBalancerHealth operation to view the health details for a load balancer.