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3030[[health-retrieving-component]]
3131== Retrieving the Health of a component
32- To retrieve the health of a particular component of the application, make a `GET` request
33- to `/actuator/health/\{component}`, as shown in the following curl-based example:
32+ To retrieve the health of a particular component of the application's health, make a
33+ `GET` request to `/actuator/health/\{component}`, as shown in the following curl-based
34+ example:
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3536include::{snippets}health/component/curl-request.adoc[]
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4344[[health-retrieving-component-response-structure]]
4445=== Response Structure
45- The response contains details of the health of a particular component of the application.
46- The following table describes the structure of the response:
46+ The response contains details of the health of a particular component of the
47+ application's health. The following table describes the structure of the response:
4748
4849[cols="2,1,3"]
4950include::{snippets}health/component/response-fields.adoc[]
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53- [[health-retrieving-component-instance ]]
54- == Retrieving the Health of a component instance
55- If a particular component consists of multiple instances (as the `broker` indicator in
56- the example above), the health of a particular instance of that component can be retrieved
57- by issuing a `GET` request to `/actuator/health/\{component}/\{instance }`, as shown in the
58- following curl-based example:
54+ [[health-retrieving-component-nested ]]
55+ == Retrieving the Health of a nested component
56+ If a particular component contains other nested components (as the `broker` indicator in
57+ the example above), the health of such a nested component can be retrieved by issuing a
58+ `GET` request to `/actuator/health/\{component}/\{subcomponent }`, as shown in the following
59+ curl-based example:
5960
6061include::{snippets}health/instance/curl-request.adoc[]
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6263The resulting response is similar to the following:
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6465include::{snippets}health/instance/http-response.adoc[]
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67+ Components of an application's health may be nested arbitrarily deep depending on the
68+ application's health indicators and how they have been grouped. The health endpoint
69+ supports any number of `/\{component}` identifiers in the URL to allow the health of a
70+ component at any depth to be retrieved.
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6874[[health-retrieving-component-instance-response-structure]]
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