# ConfigureHealthCheck
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Specifies the health check settings to use when evaluating the health state of your EC2 instances.

For more information, see [Configure health checks for your load balancer](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/classic/elb-healthchecks.html) in the *User Guide for Classic Load Balancers*.

## Request Parameters
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 For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see [Common Parameters](CommonParameters.md).

 ** HealthCheck **   
The configuration information.  
Type: [HealthCheck](API_HealthCheck.md) object  
Required: Yes

 ** LoadBalancerName **   
The name of the load balancer.  
Type: String  
Required: Yes

## Response Elements
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The following element is returned by the service.

 ** HealthCheck **   
The updated health check.  
Type: [HealthCheck](API_HealthCheck.md) object

## Errors
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For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see [Common Error Types](CommonErrors.md).

 ** LoadBalancerNotFound **   
The specified load balancer does not exist.  
HTTP Status Code: 400

## Examples
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### Configure health check settings
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This example specifies the health check settings used to evaluate the health of your EC2 instances.

#### Sample Request
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```
https://elasticloadbalancing.amazonaws.com/?Action=ConfigureHealthCheck
&LoadBalancerName=my-loadbalancer
&HealthCheck.HealthyThreshold=2
&HealthCheck.UnhealthyThreshold=2
&HealthCheck.Target=HTTP:80/ping
&HealthCheck.Interval=30
&HealthCheck.Timeout=3
&Version=2012-06-01
&AUTHPARAMS
```

#### Sample Response
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```
<ConfigureHealthCheckResponse xmlns="http://elasticloadbalancing.amazonaws.com/doc/2012-06-01/">
  <ConfigureHealthCheckResult>
    <HealthCheck>
      <Interval>30</Interval>
      <Target>HTTP:80/ping</Target>
      <HealthyThreshold>2</HealthyThreshold>
      <Timeout>3</Timeout>
      <UnhealthyThreshold>2</UnhealthyThreshold>
    </HealthCheck>
  </ConfigureHealthCheckResult>
  <ResponseMetadata>
    <RequestId>83c88b9d-12b7-11e3-8b82-87b12EXAMPLE</RequestId>
  </ResponseMetadata>
</ConfigureHealthCheckResponse>
```

## See Also
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For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:
+  [AWS Command Line Interface V2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/cli2/elasticloadbalancing-2012-06-01/ConfigureHealthCheck) 
+  [AWS SDK for .NET V4](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/DotNetSDKV4/elasticloadbalancing-2012-06-01/ConfigureHealthCheck) 
+  [AWS SDK for C\$1\$1](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForCpp/elasticloadbalancing-2012-06-01/ConfigureHealthCheck) 
+  [AWS SDK for Go v2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForGoV2/elasticloadbalancing-2012-06-01/ConfigureHealthCheck) 
+  [AWS SDK for Java V2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForJavaV2/elasticloadbalancing-2012-06-01/ConfigureHealthCheck) 
+  [AWS SDK for JavaScript V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForJavaScriptV3/elasticloadbalancing-2012-06-01/ConfigureHealthCheck) 
+  [AWS SDK for Kotlin](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForKotlin/elasticloadbalancing-2012-06-01/ConfigureHealthCheck) 
+  [AWS SDK for PHP V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForPHPV3/elasticloadbalancing-2012-06-01/ConfigureHealthCheck) 
+  [AWS SDK for Python](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/boto3/elasticloadbalancing-2012-06-01/ConfigureHealthCheck) 
+  [AWS SDK for Ruby V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForRubyV3/elasticloadbalancing-2012-06-01/ConfigureHealthCheck)