# Kong Nodes Cluster Health Check

**URL:** <https://discuss.konghq.com/t/kong-nodes-cluster-health-check/3326>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Created:** [April 17, 2019, 10:54pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/kong-nodes-cluster-health-check/3326 "2019-04-17T22:54:56Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 17, 2019, 10:54pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/kong-nodes-cluster-health-check/3326/1 "2019-04-17T22:54:56Z")

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Hi,

What is the best approach to do health checks to Kong Nodes Cluster?

Use the internal system of Health Check adding upstream pointing directly to the node?

Using nginx\_http\_include with a location /ping 200 OK?

Other ideas?