On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 15:08 -0700, John Dickinson wrote: > Swift comes with a healthcheck middleware used as the first entry on > the pipeline. It can be used for the purpose you describe. The > middleware implements the "/healthcheck" endpoint and returns a 200 > status code with "OK" in the body. This was proposed to openstack-common recently, but we figured that supporting HEAD on the top-level entry point of services would be more obvious and have the same semantics. https://blueprints.launchpad.net/openstack-common/+spec/port-swift-healthcheck http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2012-August/000614.html Cheers, Mark.