Creating a health probe

Create a health probe to monitor the health of your virtual machines.

1. Open your load balancer and click Health probes in the left panel.
2. Click Add.
3. Enter a name, DemoREST-HP for example.
4. Configure the health probe as follows:

   Parameter	Value
   Protocol	Select HTTP.
   Port	Enter the destination port, 5066 for example.
   Path	Enter the URI used to request the health status from the backend endpoint, /health for example.
   Interval	Enter the interval in seconds between probe attempts, 15 for example.
   Unhealthy threshold	Enter the number of consecutive probe failures that must occur before a virtual machine is considered unhealthy, 2 for example.

5. Click OK.