---
title: Health
order: 3
description: "The at-a-glance daemon state derived from the pool: healthy when the pool is reporting, degraded when it reports an error, down when there is no pool. The dashboard color-codes each state."
tags: [glossary, telemetry-and-health]
---

# Health

The at-a-glance daemon state derived from the pool: **healthy** when the pool is
reporting, **degraded** when it reports an error, **down** when there is no pool.
The dashboard color-codes each state.

## Elsewhere

A Kubernetes liveness or readiness probe answers one container's up-or-down. magus health has
three states, and degraded (the pool reports an error) is the one a probe would miss.

## Example

```sh
magus status --probe=readiness
```

## Used in

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In the docs:

- [Health: what magus status reports](../guides/integrations/server.md#health-what-magus-status-reports)
- [One-shot daemon health probe](../guides/tips.md#one-shot-daemon-health-probe)
- [Health](../reference/api/status/v1alpha1/status.md#health)

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## See also

- [The broker and the daemon](../guides/integrations/server.md)
- [Daemon](daemon.md)