# Ping Companies House service

**URL:** <http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/ping-companies-house-service/1573>\
**Category:** API Question\
**Created:** [January 10, 2018, 5:36am UTC](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/ping-companies-house-service/1573 "2018-01-10T05:36:45Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 1, 2018, 11:43am UTC](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/ping-companies-house-service/1573/5 "2018-02-01T11:43:41Z")

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Just as a follow up to this.

There is a way to call the service to ensure it is available, this can be done by curling the  
API health check endpoint. An example of how this can be done is:

curl -vvv -k -X GET -H “Authorisation” -H “Cache-Control: no-cache” -H “Postman token” [https://api.companieshouse.gov.uk/healthcheck](https://api.companieshouse.gov.uk/healthcheck)

This should return a 200 status.

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