# NVIDIA NIM Health API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/nvidia-nim/nvidia-nim-health-api/  
**Provider:** NVIDIA NIM — https://apis.io/providers/nvidia-nim/  
**Documentation:** https://docs.nvidia.com/nim/large-language-models/latest/observability.html

NVIDIA NIM Health API is one of 11 APIs that [NVIDIA NIM](https://apis.io/providers/nvidia-nim/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include Health, Observability, and Kubernetes. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and an OpenAPI specification.

Liveness, readiness, and startup probes exposed by self-hosted NIM containers (/v1/health/live, /v1/health/ready) and a Prometheus /v1/metrics scrape endpoint for GPU utilization, request latency, and queue depth. Drives Kubernetes pod lifecycle and HPA scaling via the NIM Operator.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — https://docs.nvidia.com/nim/large-language-models/latest/observability.html
- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/nvidia-nim/refs/heads/main/openapi/nvidia-nim-health-api-openapi.yml

## Other NVIDIA NIM APIs (10)

- [NVIDIA NIM Completions API](https://apis.io/apis/nvidia-nim/nvidia-nim-completions-api/)
- [NVIDIA NIM Embeddings API](https://apis.io/apis/nvidia-nim/nvidia-nim-embeddings-api/)
- [NVIDIA NIM Reranking API](https://apis.io/apis/nvidia-nim/nvidia-nim-reranking-api/)
- [NVIDIA NIM Models API](https://apis.io/apis/nvidia-nim/nvidia-nim-models-api/)
- [NVIDIA NIM Vision Language Models API](https://apis.io/apis/nvidia-nim/nvidia-nim-vision-api/)
- [NVIDIA NIM Biology (BioNeMo) API](https://apis.io/apis/nvidia-nim/nvidia-nim-biology-api/)
- [NVIDIA NIM ASR API](https://apis.io/apis/nvidia-nim/nvidia-nim-asr-api/)
- [NVIDIA NIM Chat API](https://apis.io/apis/nvidia-nim/nvidia-nim-chat-api/)
- [NVIDIA NIM Images API](https://apis.io/apis/nvidia-nim/nvidia-nim-images-api/)
- [NVIDIA NIM TTS API](https://apis.io/apis/nvidia-nim/nvidia-nim-tts-api/)

## Tags

Health, Observability, Kubernetes

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