NVIDIA NIM Health API
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.
NVIDIA NIM Health API is one of 11 APIs that NVIDIA NIM publishes on the 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.
This API exposes 3 operations across 3 paths, and defines 1 schema. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 2026-05-25.
Requests are made against 2 base URLs: https://integrate.api.nvidia.com, http://localhost:8000.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 1
NVIDIA NIM Health API declares
1 security scheme
for authenticating requests.
It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (nvapi-...) (BearerAuth).
By default, every request must be authenticated.
Paths & Operations 3
Across 3 paths, the API surfaces 3 operations — 3 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Liveness, readiness, and metrics probes
Schemas 1
The contract defines 1 schema that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed is HealthStatus (2 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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