I’ve recently been reading up on .NET Aspire and have found a lot of cool .NET tech underpinning the offering. One of
the tools that has gotten a glow-up since I last looked at it has been Microsoft.Extensions.Diagnostics.HealthChecks
package provides you with the infrastructure to perform various types of system health monitoring.
In this post, we’ll look at installing the health checks package into existing ASP.NET Core applications and using an additional package to perform health checks on your databases using Entity Framework Core.