Atlassian Crowd health check endpoint throws error '401' after upgrade.
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Summary
After an upgrade to Atlassian Crowd version v5.1.3 or newer, the health check endpoint /crowd/rest/healthcheck/1.0/check is now throwing a '401' error when invoked:
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><status><status-code>401</status-code><message>Client must be authenticated to access this resource.</message></status>Environment
Atlassian Crowd Data Center v5.1.3 or newer.
Cause
Before Atlassian Crowd v5.1.3, you were able to access the healthcheck endpoint at /crowd/rest/healthcheck/1.0/check. After v5.1.3 we have restricted the scope of the endpoint to an administrator user only.
Solution
You can access the new healthcheck endpoint at /crowd/status- e.g. http://<crowd-node>:8095/crowd/status which should return a success if the node is online:
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