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    The information in this documentation is geared towards users that want to use Gloo Gateway proxies with the Kubernetes Gateway API. If you want to use the Gloo Edge API instead, see the Gloo Gateway (Gloo Edge API) documentation.

    Health checks

    Enable health checks on the gateway proxy or your upstreams to automatically monitor their availability.

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    Gateway health checks

    Enable a health check plugin on your gateway proxy to respond with common HTTP codes.

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    Upstream health checks

    Automatically monitor the status of upstreams by configuring health checks.

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