Health Check Security

Definitions

1. The practice of securing application or infrastructure health-check endpoints so they do not expose sensitive status data, bypass authentication, or become a path for abuse. Health checks are operationally useful, but careless implementations can leak internals or expand attack surface.

   In plain English: Making sure system health-check features do not become security weaknesses.

   Example: "The `/healthz` endpoint needed health check security because it was disclosing version data and backend connection details."

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