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title: "Comment by Abhinav Sharma on \"System Design Drill Day 1: Latency, Throughput and Availability\" | Hashnode"
description: "The honest health check point is underrated. A /health that returns 200 while MySQL is down just teaches people to ignore it. Reporting each dependency separate"
url: "https://hashnode.com/posts/system-design-drill-day-1-latency-throughput-and-availability/6ad70df2ba4ce982be483ab8/comment/6ad71c083ee9c588cbf2b5c5"
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[Discussion](https://hashnode.com/posts/system-design-drill-day-1-latency-throughput-and-availability/6ad70df2ba4ce982be483ab8)

Comment [System Design Drill Day 1: Latency, Throughput and Availability](https://hashnode.com/posts/system-design-drill-day-1-latency-throughput-and-availability/6ad70df2ba4ce982be483ab8)

[Abhinav Sharma](https://hashnode.com/@abhinavs1920)

[Oct 20](https://hashnode.com/posts/system-design-drill-day-1-latency-throughput-and-availability/6ad70df2ba4ce982be483ab8/comment/6ad71c083ee9c588cbf2b5c5)

The honest health check point is underrated. A /health that returns 200 while MySQL is down just teaches people to ignore it. Reporting each dependency separately is what makes it useful during an incident.

[Anish Ansari](https://hashnode.com/@anish78)

[Oct 20](https://hashnode.com/posts/system-design-drill-day-1-latency-throughput-and-availability/6ad70df2ba4ce982be483ab8/comment/6ad71c083ee9c588cbf2b5c5#reply-6ad73cbe607fb0f15291ecef)

Thanks Abhinav, glad the honest health check point landed with you. A /health that lies during an incident is worse than none, so I agree 🙂