# Health Checker

A simple way to gauge the health of a VerneMQ cluster is to query the `/health` path on the [HTTP listener](https://docs.vernemq.com/1.13.0/configuring-vernemq/http-listeners).

The health check will return **200** when VerneMQ is accepting connections and is joined with the cluster (for clustered setups). **503** will be returned in case any of those two conditions are not met.