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+# Dapr health API reference
+
+Dapr provides health checking probes that can be used as readiness or liveness of Dapr.
+
+### Get Dapr health state
+
+Gets the health state for Dapr.
+
+#### HTTP Request
+
+```http
+GET http://localhost:<daprPort>/v1.0/healthz
+```
+
+#### HTTP Response Codes
+
+Code | Description
+---- | -----------
+200  | health is ok
+500  | health is not ok
+
+#### URL Parameters
+
+Parameter | Description
+--------- | -----------
+daprPort | The Dapr port.
+
+#### Examples
+
+```shell
+curl http://localhost:3500/v1.0/healthz
+  -H "Content-Type: application/json"
+```
+