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title: Check pool health · Cloudflare Learning Paths
description: Before directing any traffic to your pools, make sure that your
  pools and monitors are set up correctly. The status of your health check will
  be unknown until the results of the first check are available.
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Before directing any traffic to your pools, make sure that your pools and monitors are set up correctly. The status of your health check will be *unknown* until the results of the first check are available.

* Dashboard

  To confirm pool health using the dashboard:

  1. Go to **Load Balancing**.
  2. Select the **Pools** tab.
  3. For pools and individual endpoints, review the values in the **Health** and **Endpoint Health** columns.

  For more information on pool and endpoint health statuses, refer to [How a pool becomes unhealthy](https://developers.cloudflare.com/load-balancing/understand-basics/health-details/#how-a-pool-becomes-unhealthy).

* API

  To fetch the latest health status of all pools, use the [List Pools](https://developers.cloudflare.com/api/resources/load_balancers/subresources/pools/methods/list/) command, paying attention to the `healthy` value for pools and origins (endpoints).

  For troubleshooting a specific pool's health, use the [Pool Health Details](https://developers.cloudflare.com/api/resources/load_balancers/subresources/pools/subresources/health/methods/get/) command.

## Unexpected health status

If you notice that healthy pools are being marked unhealthy:

* Review [how endpoints and pools become unhealthy](https://developers.cloudflare.com/load-balancing/understand-basics/health-details/).
* Refer to the [Troubleshooting section](https://developers.cloudflare.com/load-balancing/troubleshooting/).
