Our server operations team has asked the web development team (ASP.NET) to provide a URL in our application, which the load balancer can ping to perform health checks.
What should be executed on this page? I think we should attempt a database connection to ensure connectivity between the web and database. Anything else?
Really you want to check the database configuration, asp.net configuration, web.config and any other web services or dependencies.
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