# We were hoping to get health check result without using kong admin

**URL:** <https://discuss.konghq.com/t/we-were-hoping-to-get-health-check-result-without-using-kong-admin/6199>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Created:** [May 2, 2020, 6:34am UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/we-were-hoping-to-get-health-check-result-without-using-kong-admin/6199 "2020-05-02T06:34:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![icarhunter](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discuss.konghq.com/icarhunter/32/1919_2.png) [@icarhunter](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/icarhunter)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2020, 6:34am UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/we-were-hoping-to-get-health-check-result-without-using-kong-admin/6199/1 "2020-05-02T06:34:32Z")

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we’re running Kong in a Kubernetes cluster, currently backed by Postgres (also in Kubernetes). We were hoping to get health check result without using kong admin.for example using Kubernetes some features or other method to do id .how to do it？Has any suggest？thank you very much.

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**Author:** ![hbagdi](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discuss.konghq.com/hbagdi/32/562_2.png) [@hbagdi](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/hbagdi)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2020, 12:19am UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/we-were-hoping-to-get-health-check-result-without-using-kong-admin/6199/2 "2020-05-06T00:19:44Z")

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Take a look at status\_listen:

> **[Open-Source API Management and Microservice Management](https://docs.konghq.com/2.0.x/configuration/#status_listen)**
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> Secure, Manage & Extend your APIs or Microservices with plugins for authentication, logging, rate-limiting, transformations and more.

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**Author:** ![icarhunter](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discuss.konghq.com/icarhunter/32/1919_2.png) [@icarhunter](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/icarhunter)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2020, 2:21am UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/we-were-hoping-to-get-health-check-result-without-using-kong-admin/6199/3 "2020-05-06T02:21:17Z")

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I want to get the kong Routed services’s result of health check.not the node of kong.but,we don’t want to expose our ip of the kong admin.Has any suggest？thank you very much.

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**Author:** ![matt.miller](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discuss.konghq.com/matt.miller/32/982_2.png) [@matt.miller](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/matt.miller)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 7:59pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/we-were-hoping-to-get-health-check-result-without-using-kong-admin/6199/4 "2020-05-07T19:59:28Z")

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We add a `/health` Route to Kong that uses a “no-op” Service with fake hostname. Then we add the Request Termination Plugin to that Service and have it return an “ok” message.

The Kubernetes liveness and readiness probes are configured to call the `/health` Route.

We ensure those pieces exist when the pod starts up by using an init container that uses the Kong docker image and a custom (somewhat long) entrypoint.