Heartbeat

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15 Nov 2025 — 1 min read

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The health check is probably the most implemented endpoint in the history of service applications.

Every time that I release my projects into the wild west of the internet, I usually have a health path for me to check the application health through Uptime Kuma. This time, since I wanted to practice some basic Rust application, I created a heartbeat checker using the Actix framework to set up an HTTP service that takes in a set of endpoints and perform a basic GET request for the health check.

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