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# gcp_compute_health_check{% #gcp_compute_health_check %}

## `ancestors`{% #ancestors %}

**Type**: `UNORDERED_LIST_STRING`

## `check_interval_sec`{% #check_interval_sec %}

**Type**: `INT32`**Provider name**: `checkIntervalSec`**Description**: How often (in seconds) to send a health check. The default value is 5 seconds.

## `creation_timestamp`{% #creation_timestamp %}

**Type**: `TIMESTAMP`**Provider name**: `creationTimestamp`**Description**: [Output Only] Creation timestamp in 3339 text format.

## `description`{% #description %}

**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `description`**Description**: An optional description of this resource. Provide this property when you create the resource.

## `grpc_health_check`{% #grpc_health_check %}

**Type**: `STRUCT`**Provider name**: `grpcHealthCheck`

- `grpc_service_name`**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `grpcServiceName`**Description**: The gRPC service name for the health check. This field is optional. The value of grpc_service_name has the following meanings by convention: - Empty service_name means the overall status of all services at the backend. - Non-empty service_name means the health of that gRPC service, as defined by the owner of the service. The grpc_service_name can only be ASCII.
- `port`**Type**: `INT32`**Provider name**: `port`**Description**: The TCP port number to which the health check prober sends packets. Valid values are 1 through 65535.
- `port_name`**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `portName`**Description**: Not supported.
- `port_specification`**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `portSpecification`**Description**: Specifies how a port is selected for health checking. Can be one of the following values: USE_FIXED_PORT: Specifies a port number explicitly using the port field in the health check. Supported by backend services for passthrough load balancers and backend services for proxy load balancers. Not supported by target pools. The health check supports all backends supported by the backend service provided the backend can be health checked. For example, GCE_VM_IP network endpoint groups, GCE_VM_IP_PORT network endpoint groups, and instance group backends. USE_NAMED_PORT: Not supported. USE_SERVING_PORT: Provides an indirect method of specifying the health check port by referring to the backend service. Only supported by backend services for proxy load balancers. Not supported by target pools. Not supported by backend services for passthrough load balancers. Supports all backends that can be health checked; for example, GCE_VM_IP_PORT network endpoint groups and instance group backends. For GCE_VM_IP_PORT network endpoint group backends, the health check uses the port number specified for each endpoint in the network endpoint group. For instance group backends, the health check uses the port number determined by looking up the backend service's named port in the instance group's list of named ports.**Possible values**:
  - `USE_FIXED_PORT` - The port number in the health check's port is used for health checking. Applies to network endpoint group and instance group backends.
  - `USE_NAMED_PORT` - Not supported.
  - `USE_SERVING_PORT` - For network endpoint group backends, the health check uses the port number specified on each endpoint in the network endpoint group. For instance group backends, the health check uses the port number specified for the backend service's named port defined in the instance group's named ports.

## `healthy_threshold`{% #healthy_threshold %}

**Type**: `INT32`**Provider name**: `healthyThreshold`**Description**: A so-far unhealthy instance will be marked healthy after this many consecutive successes. The default value is 2.

## `http2_health_check`{% #http2_health_check %}

**Type**: `STRUCT`**Provider name**: `http2HealthCheck`

- `host`**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `host`**Description**: The value of the host header in the HTTP/2 health check request. If left empty (default value), the host header is set to the destination IP address to which health check packets are sent. The destination IP address depends on the type of load balancer. For details, see: [https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/health-check-concepts#hc-packet-dest](https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/health-check-concepts#hc-packet-dest)
- `port`**Type**: `INT32`**Provider name**: `port`**Description**: The TCP port number to which the health check prober sends packets. The default value is 443. Valid values are 1 through 65535.
- `port_name`**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `portName`**Description**: Not supported.
- `port_specification`**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `portSpecification`**Description**: Specifies how a port is selected for health checking. Can be one of the following values: USE_FIXED_PORT: Specifies a port number explicitly using the port field in the health check. Supported by backend services for passthrough load balancers and backend services for proxy load balancers. Not supported by target pools. The health check supports all backends supported by the backend service provided the backend can be health checked. For example, GCE_VM_IP network endpoint groups, GCE_VM_IP_PORT network endpoint groups, and instance group backends. USE_NAMED_PORT: Not supported. USE_SERVING_PORT: Provides an indirect method of specifying the health check port by referring to the backend service. Only supported by backend services for proxy load balancers. Not supported by target pools. Not supported by backend services for passthrough load balancers. Supports all backends that can be health checked; for example, GCE_VM_IP_PORT network endpoint groups and instance group backends. For GCE_VM_IP_PORT network endpoint group backends, the health check uses the port number specified for each endpoint in the network endpoint group. For instance group backends, the health check uses the port number determined by looking up the backend service's named port in the instance group's list of named ports.**Possible values**:
  - `USE_FIXED_PORT` - The port number in the health check's port is used for health checking. Applies to network endpoint group and instance group backends.
  - `USE_NAMED_PORT` - Not supported.
  - `USE_SERVING_PORT` - For network endpoint group backends, the health check uses the port number specified on each endpoint in the network endpoint group. For instance group backends, the health check uses the port number specified for the backend service's named port defined in the instance group's named ports.
- `proxy_header`**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `proxyHeader`**Description**: Specifies the type of proxy header to append before sending data to the backend, either NONE or PROXY_V1. The default is NONE.**Possible values**:
  - `NONE`
  - `PROXY_V1`
- `request_path`**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `requestPath`**Description**: The request path of the HTTP/2 health check request. The default value is /. Must comply with RFC3986.
- `response`**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `response`**Description**: Creates a content-based HTTP/2 health check. In addition to the required HTTP 200 (OK) status code, you can configure the health check to pass only when the backend sends this specific ASCII response string within the first 1024 bytes of the HTTP response body. For details, see: [https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/health-check-concepts#criteria-protocol-http](https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/health-check-concepts#criteria-protocol-http)

## `http_health_check`{% #http_health_check %}

**Type**: `STRUCT`**Provider name**: `httpHealthCheck`

- `host`**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `host`**Description**: The value of the host header in the HTTP health check request. If left empty (default value), the host header is set to the destination IP address to which health check packets are sent. The destination IP address depends on the type of load balancer. For details, see: [https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/health-check-concepts#hc-packet-dest](https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/health-check-concepts#hc-packet-dest)
- `port`**Type**: `INT32`**Provider name**: `port`**Description**: The TCP port number to which the health check prober sends packets. The default value is 80. Valid values are 1 through 65535.
- `port_name`**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `portName`**Description**: Not supported.
- `port_specification`**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `portSpecification`**Description**: Specifies how a port is selected for health checking. Can be one of the following values: USE_FIXED_PORT: Specifies a port number explicitly using the port field in the health check. Supported by backend services for passthrough load balancers and backend services for proxy load balancers. Also supported in legacy HTTP health checks for target pools. The health check supports all backends supported by the backend service provided the backend can be health checked. For example, GCE_VM_IP network endpoint groups, GCE_VM_IP_PORT network endpoint groups, and instance group backends. USE_NAMED_PORT: Not supported. USE_SERVING_PORT: Provides an indirect method of specifying the health check port by referring to the backend service. Only supported by backend services for proxy load balancers. Not supported by target pools. Not supported by backend services for pass-through load balancers. Supports all backends that can be health checked; for example, GCE_VM_IP_PORT network endpoint groups and instance group backends. For GCE_VM_IP_PORT network endpoint group backends, the health check uses the port number specified for each endpoint in the network endpoint group. For instance group backends, the health check uses the port number determined by looking up the backend service's named port in the instance group's list of named ports.**Possible values**:
  - `USE_FIXED_PORT` - The port number in the health check's port is used for health checking. Applies to network endpoint group and instance group backends.
  - `USE_NAMED_PORT` - Not supported.
  - `USE_SERVING_PORT` - For network endpoint group backends, the health check uses the port number specified on each endpoint in the network endpoint group. For instance group backends, the health check uses the port number specified for the backend service's named port defined in the instance group's named ports.
- `proxy_header`**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `proxyHeader`**Description**: Specifies the type of proxy header to append before sending data to the backend, either NONE or PROXY_V1. The default is NONE.**Possible values**:
  - `NONE`
  - `PROXY_V1`
- `request_path`**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `requestPath`**Description**: The request path of the HTTP health check request. The default value is /. Must comply with RFC3986.
- `response`**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `response`**Description**: Creates a content-based HTTP health check. In addition to the required HTTP 200 (OK) status code, you can configure the health check to pass only when the backend sends this specific ASCII response string within the first 1024 bytes of the HTTP response body. For details, see: [https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/health-check-concepts#criteria-protocol-http](https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/health-check-concepts#criteria-protocol-http)

## `https_health_check`{% #https_health_check %}

**Type**: `STRUCT`**Provider name**: `httpsHealthCheck`

- `host`**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `host`**Description**: The value of the host header in the HTTPS health check request. If left empty (default value), the host header is set to the destination IP address to which health check packets are sent. The destination IP address depends on the type of load balancer. For details, see: [https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/health-check-concepts#hc-packet-dest](https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/health-check-concepts#hc-packet-dest)
- `port`**Type**: `INT32`**Provider name**: `port`**Description**: The TCP port number to which the health check prober sends packets. The default value is 443. Valid values are 1 through 65535.
- `port_name`**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `portName`**Description**: Not supported.
- `port_specification`**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `portSpecification`**Description**: Specifies how a port is selected for health checking. Can be one of the following values: USE_FIXED_PORT: Specifies a port number explicitly using the port field in the health check. Supported by backend services for passthrough load balancers and backend services for proxy load balancers. Not supported by target pools. The health check supports all backends supported by the backend service provided the backend can be health checked. For example, GCE_VM_IP network endpoint groups, GCE_VM_IP_PORT network endpoint groups, and instance group backends. USE_NAMED_PORT: Not supported. USE_SERVING_PORT: Provides an indirect method of specifying the health check port by referring to the backend service. Only supported by backend services for proxy load balancers. Not supported by target pools. Not supported by backend services for passthrough load balancers. Supports all backends that can be health checked; for example, GCE_VM_IP_PORT network endpoint groups and instance group backends. For GCE_VM_IP_PORT network endpoint group backends, the health check uses the port number specified for each endpoint in the network endpoint group. For instance group backends, the health check uses the port number determined by looking up the backend service's named port in the instance group's list of named ports.**Possible values**:
  - `USE_FIXED_PORT` - The port number in the health check's port is used for health checking. Applies to network endpoint group and instance group backends.
  - `USE_NAMED_PORT` - Not supported.
  - `USE_SERVING_PORT` - For network endpoint group backends, the health check uses the port number specified on each endpoint in the network endpoint group. For instance group backends, the health check uses the port number specified for the backend service's named port defined in the instance group's named ports.
- `proxy_header`**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `proxyHeader`**Description**: Specifies the type of proxy header to append before sending data to the backend, either NONE or PROXY_V1. The default is NONE.**Possible values**:
  - `NONE`
  - `PROXY_V1`
- `request_path`**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `requestPath`**Description**: The request path of the HTTPS health check request. The default value is /. Must comply with RFC3986.
- `response`**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `response`**Description**: Creates a content-based HTTPS health check. In addition to the required HTTP 200 (OK) status code, you can configure the health check to pass only when the backend sends this specific ASCII response string within the first 1024 bytes of the HTTP response body. For details, see: [https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/health-check-concepts#criteria-protocol-http](https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/health-check-concepts#criteria-protocol-http)

## `id`{% #id %}

**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `id`**Description**: [Output Only] The unique identifier for the resource. This identifier is defined by the server.

## `kind`{% #kind %}

**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `kind`**Description**: Type of the resource.

## `labels`{% #labels %}

**Type**: `UNORDERED_LIST_STRING`

## `log_config`{% #log_config %}

**Type**: `STRUCT`**Provider name**: `logConfig`**Description**: Configure logging on this health check.

- `enable`**Type**: `BOOLEAN`**Provider name**: `enable`**Description**: Indicates whether or not to export logs. This is false by default, which means no health check logging will be done.

## `name`{% #name %}

**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `name`**Description**: Name of the resource. Provided by the client when the resource is created. The name must be 1-63 characters long, and comply with RFC1035. For example, a name that is 1-63 characters long, matches the regular expression `[a-z]([-a-z0-9]*[a-z0-9])?`, and otherwise complies with RFC1035. This regular expression describes a name where the first character is a lowercase letter, and all following characters are a dash, lowercase letter, or digit, except the last character, which isn't a dash.

## `organization_id`{% #organization_id %}

**Type**: `STRING`

## `parent`{% #parent %}

**Type**: `STRING`

## `project_id`{% #project_id %}

**Type**: `STRING`

## `project_number`{% #project_number %}

**Type**: `STRING`

## `region`{% #region %}

**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `region`**Description**: [Output Only] Region where the health check resides. Not applicable to global health checks.

## `region_id`{% #region_id %}

**Type**: `STRING`

## `resource_name`{% #resource_name %}

**Type**: `STRING`

## `self_link`{% #self_link %}

**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `selfLink`**Description**: [Output Only] Server-defined URL for the resource.

## `source_regions`{% #source_regions %}

**Type**: `UNORDERED_LIST_STRING`**Provider name**: `sourceRegions`**Description**: The list of cloud regions from which health checks are performed. If any regions are specified, then exactly 3 regions should be specified. The region names must be valid names of Google Cloud regions. This can only be set for global health check. If this list is non-empty, then there are restrictions on what other health check fields are supported and what other resources can use this health check: - SSL, HTTP2, and GRPC protocols are not supported. - The TCP request field is not supported. - The proxyHeader field for HTTP, HTTPS, and TCP is not supported. - The checkIntervalSec field must be at least 30. - The health check cannot be used with BackendService nor with managed instance group auto-healing.

## `ssl_health_check`{% #ssl_health_check %}

**Type**: `STRUCT`**Provider name**: `sslHealthCheck`

- `port`**Type**: `INT32`**Provider name**: `port`**Description**: The TCP port number to which the health check prober sends packets. The default value is 443. Valid values are 1 through 65535.
- `port_name`**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `portName`**Description**: Not supported.
- `port_specification`**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `portSpecification`**Description**: Specifies how a port is selected for health checking. Can be one of the following values: USE_FIXED_PORT: Specifies a port number explicitly using the port field in the health check. Supported by backend services for passthrough load balancers and backend services for proxy load balancers. Not supported by target pools. The health check supports all backends supported by the backend service provided the backend can be health checked. For example, GCE_VM_IP network endpoint groups, GCE_VM_IP_PORT network endpoint groups, and instance group backends. USE_NAMED_PORT: Not supported. USE_SERVING_PORT: Provides an indirect method of specifying the health check port by referring to the backend service. Only supported by backend services for proxy load balancers. Not supported by target pools. Not supported by backend services for passthrough load balancers. Supports all backends that can be health checked; for example, GCE_VM_IP_PORT network endpoint groups and instance group backends. For GCE_VM_IP_PORT network endpoint group backends, the health check uses the port number specified for each endpoint in the network endpoint group. For instance group backends, the health check uses the port number determined by looking up the backend service's named port in the instance group's list of named ports.**Possible values**:
  - `USE_FIXED_PORT` - The port number in the health check's port is used for health checking. Applies to network endpoint group and instance group backends.
  - `USE_NAMED_PORT` - Not supported.
  - `USE_SERVING_PORT` - For network endpoint group backends, the health check uses the port number specified on each endpoint in the network endpoint group. For instance group backends, the health check uses the port number specified for the backend service's named port defined in the instance group's named ports.
- `proxy_header`**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `proxyHeader`**Description**: Specifies the type of proxy header to append before sending data to the backend, either NONE or PROXY_V1. The default is NONE.**Possible values**:
  - `NONE`
  - `PROXY_V1`
- `request`**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `request`**Description**: Instructs the health check prober to send this exact ASCII string, up to 1024 bytes in length, after establishing the TCP connection and SSL handshake.
- `response`**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `response`**Description**: Creates a content-based SSL health check. In addition to establishing a TCP connection and the TLS handshake, you can configure the health check to pass only when the backend sends this exact response ASCII string, up to 1024 bytes in length. For details, see: [https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/health-check-concepts#criteria-protocol-ssl-tcp](https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/health-check-concepts#criteria-protocol-ssl-tcp)

## `tags`{% #tags %}

**Type**: `UNORDERED_LIST_STRING`

## `tcp_health_check`{% #tcp_health_check %}

**Type**: `STRUCT`**Provider name**: `tcpHealthCheck`

- `port`**Type**: `INT32`**Provider name**: `port`**Description**: The TCP port number to which the health check prober sends packets. The default value is 80. Valid values are 1 through 65535.
- `port_name`**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `portName`**Description**: Not supported.
- `port_specification`**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `portSpecification`**Description**: Specifies how a port is selected for health checking. Can be one of the following values: USE_FIXED_PORT: Specifies a port number explicitly using the port field in the health check. Supported by backend services for passthrough load balancers and backend services for proxy load balancers. Not supported by target pools. The health check supports all backends supported by the backend service provided the backend can be health checked. For example, GCE_VM_IP network endpoint groups, GCE_VM_IP_PORT network endpoint groups, and instance group backends. USE_NAMED_PORT: Not supported. USE_SERVING_PORT: Provides an indirect method of specifying the health check port by referring to the backend service. Only supported by backend services for proxy load balancers. Not supported by target pools. Not supported by backend services for passthrough load balancers. Supports all backends that can be health checked; for example, GCE_VM_IP_PORT network endpoint groups and instance group backends. For GCE_VM_IP_PORT network endpoint group backends, the health check uses the port number specified for each endpoint in the network endpoint group. For instance group backends, the health check uses the port number determined by looking up the backend service's named port in the instance group's list of named ports.**Possible values**:
  - `USE_FIXED_PORT` - The port number in the health check's port is used for health checking. Applies to network endpoint group and instance group backends.
  - `USE_NAMED_PORT` - Not supported.
  - `USE_SERVING_PORT` - For network endpoint group backends, the health check uses the port number specified on each endpoint in the network endpoint group. For instance group backends, the health check uses the port number specified for the backend service's named port defined in the instance group's named ports.
- `proxy_header`**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `proxyHeader`**Description**: Specifies the type of proxy header to append before sending data to the backend, either NONE or PROXY_V1. The default is NONE.**Possible values**:
  - `NONE`
  - `PROXY_V1`
- `request`**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `request`**Description**: Instructs the health check prober to send this exact ASCII string, up to 1024 bytes in length, after establishing the TCP connection.
- `response`**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `response`**Description**: Creates a content-based TCP health check. In addition to establishing a TCP connection, you can configure the health check to pass only when the backend sends this exact response ASCII string, up to 1024 bytes in length. For details, see: [https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/health-check-concepts#criteria-protocol-ssl-tcp](https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/health-check-concepts#criteria-protocol-ssl-tcp)

## `timeout_sec`{% #timeout_sec %}

**Type**: `INT32`**Provider name**: `timeoutSec`**Description**: How long (in seconds) to wait before claiming failure. The default value is 5 seconds. It is invalid for timeoutSec to have greater value than checkIntervalSec.

## `type`{% #type %}

**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `type`**Description**: Specifies the type of the healthCheck, either TCP, SSL, HTTP, HTTPS, HTTP2 or GRPC. Exactly one of the protocol-specific health check fields must be specified, which must match type field.**Possible values**:

- `GRPC`
- `HTTP`
- `HTTP2`
- `HTTPS`
- `INVALID`
- `SSL`
- `TCP`

## `unhealthy_threshold`{% #unhealthy_threshold %}

**Type**: `INT32`**Provider name**: `unhealthyThreshold`**Description**: A so-far healthy instance will be marked unhealthy after this many consecutive failures. The default value is 2.

## `zone_id`{% #zone_id %}

**Type**: `STRING`