# Health Check Endpoints
source: https://developer.mastercard.com/iccp/documentation/health-check/index.md

Retrieve the point-in-time status of specific services to assist with error handling.

### Health check for In Control for Commercial Payments {#health-check-for-in-control-for-commercial-payments}

|                           Endpoint                           |                                                                                                 Description                                                                                                  |
|--------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| `GET https://api.mastercard.com/mcapi/iccp/financial/health` | Returns the point-in-time status for the endpoint for all the calls listed under [Purchase Request](https://developer.mastercard.com/iccp/documentation/05_api_reference/soap_api/purchaserequest/index.md). |
| `GET https://api.mastercard.com/mcapi/iccp/reporting/health` | Returns the point-in-time status for the endpoint for all the calls listed under [VCN Reports](https://developer.mastercard.com/iccp/documentation/05_api_reference/soap_api/reports/index.md).              |

#### Health check response {#health-check-response}

| Status | HTTP code |    Response body    |
|--------|-----------|---------------------|
| Up     | 200       | `{"status":"UP"}`   |
| Down   | 503       | `{"status":"DOWN"}` |

Note: A response of *DOWN* does not automatically indicate that the next API call will fail and a response of *UP* does not indicate that the next API call will succeed. These health check endpoints check the status at the entry points of the services and should be used in combination with the [In Control for Commercial Payments error responses](https://developer.mastercard.com/iccp/documentation/06error_codes/index.md#list-of-codes) to be most effective.