Ping

Checking the Health of Your Traefik Instances

Configuration Examples

To enable the API handler:

File (TOML)

[ping]

File (YAML)

ping: {}

CLI

--ping=true

The /ping health-check URL is enabled with the command-line —ping or config file option [ping].

You can customize the entryPoint where the /ping is active with the entryPoint option (default value: traefik)

Path	Method	Description
`/ping`	`GET`, `HEAD`	A simple endpoint to check for Traefik process liveness. Return a code `200` with the content: `OK`

Enabling /ping on a dedicated EntryPoint.

File (TOML)

[entryPoints]
  [entryPoints.ping]
    address = ":8082"
[ping]
  entryPoint = "ping"

File (YAML)

entryPoints:
  ping:
    address: ":8082"
ping:
  entryPoint: "ping"

CLI

--entryPoints.ping.address=":8082"
--ping.entryPoint="ping"