System Health Ping api request is to determine the state of the junction web server. Since artifcatory version 2.3.0 system health ping is being used.System health ping API returns simple status response about the state of artifactory.Its produces response by content type as text/plain.
For example :
To get a system health ping response about the state of Artifactory use the following command.
curl -uadminuser:Password -XGET http://localhost:8081/artifactory/api/system/ping -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' Output Response : OK
Note: After artifactory release 7.31.x , we have introduced additional health checks to monitor the state of artifactory services.i.e. Readiness probe and Liveness probe