# Is there a health check endpoint for PDS FHIR int?

**URL:** <https://developer.community.nhs.uk/t/is-there-a-health-check-endpoint-for-pds-fhir-int/789>\
**Category:** Personal Demographics Service (PDS)\
**Tags:** integration, fhir, pds, spine, api, testing\
**Created:** [7 March 2024 15:11 UTC](https://developer.community.nhs.uk/t/is-there-a-health-check-endpoint-for-pds-fhir-int/789 "2024-03-07T15:11:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![dorlugasigal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbe5ce/32.png) [@dorlugasigal](https://developer.community.nhs.uk/u/dorlugasigal)\
**Post date:** [7 March 2024 15:11 UTC](https://developer.community.nhs.uk/t/is-there-a-health-check-endpoint-for-pds-fhir-int/789/1 "2024-03-07T15:11:52Z")

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were developing some health check within our application,  
we noted that for sandbox pds fhir the endpoint `/personal-demographics/FHIR/R4/_health` resulted with a health check, for example:

```auto
{
    "status": "pass",
    "ping": "pong",
    "version": {
        "build_label": "192733-sha9d19610e",
        "apigee_base_uri": "https://sandbox.api.service.nhs.uk/personal-demographics/FHIR/R4",
        "version": "v1.2.2259-beta",
        "releaseId": "192737",
        "commitId": "9d19610e78f961afe699ecd9d099965992d11bed"
    }
}

```

but seems like for integration environment were getting a 404 not found  
with an html body:

```auto
<html>
<title>404: Not Found</title>
<body>404: Not Found</body>
</html>

```

is there a different endpoint for the health check in int?  
Thanks

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**Author:** ![david.hamill1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f475e1/32.png) [@david.hamill1](https://developer.community.nhs.uk/u/david.hamill1)\
**Post date:** [13 March 2024 12:00 UTC](https://developer.community.nhs.uk/t/is-there-a-health-check-endpoint-for-pds-fhir-int/789/2 "2024-03-13T12:00:41Z")

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Hi,

There is not a `/_health` endpoint outside the sandbox.

You can however use the `/_ping` endpoint which doesn’t require any authorisation.

Eg ` curl "https://int.api.service.nhs.uk/personal-demographics/FHIR/R4/_ping"`  
returns

```JSON
{
    "version":"v1.2.2260-beta",
    "revision":"461",
    "releaseId":"193943",
    "commitId":"577a494402fa99ad6d10b02c26b7cb7b762387ef"
}

```