What should we name the first endpoint?

[github-actions[bot]]

We have a health check endpoint in HealthController. What's the best name/path convention for it — /health, /api/health, /actuator/health, or something else? Looking for a recommendation and the reasoning behind it.

[kristinaxm]

Go with /api/health. Reasoning: the /api prefix signals this is part of the versionable HTTP API surface (as opposed to static assets or docs), and health is the standard name Kubernetes/load balancers/monitoring tools look for. Avoid /actuator/health unless we actually pull in Spring Boot Actuator — no point implying a dependency we don't have. Keep it unauthenticated and lightweight so it can be hit frequently by liveness/readiness probes.