---
title: Ready
description: Check whether an InfluxDB OSS v2 instance is ready to accept requests.
url: https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v2/api/ready/
estimated_tokens: 1512
product: InfluxDB OSS v2
version: v2
---

[Download InfluxDB API Spec](/openapi/influxdb-oss-v2-api.yml)

Check whether an InfluxDB OSS v2 instance is ready to accept requests.

GET `/ready`

### Get the readiness of an instance at startup

#### Parameters

##### Header parameters

`Zap-Trace-Span` string

OpenTracing span context

Example request [Ask AI about this](#)

```sh
curl --request GET \
  "http://localhost:8086/ready" \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer INFLUX_TOKEN"
```

#### Responses

200 The instance is ready

`started` string <date-time>

Example: `"2019-03-13T10:09:33.891196-04:00"`

`status` string

Allowed: `ready`

`up` string

Example: `"14m45.911966424s"`

default Non 2XX error response from server.

`code` required string

code is the machine-readable error code.

Allowed: `internal error` , `not implemented` , `not found` , `conflict` , `invalid` , `unprocessable entity` , `empty value` , `unavailable` , `forbidden` , `too many requests` , `unauthorized` , `method not allowed` , `request too large` , `unsupported media type`

`err` string

Stack of errors that occurred during processing of the request. Useful for debugging.

`message` string

Human-readable message.

`op` string

Describes the logical code operation when the error occurred. Useful for debugging.