Wondering whether health checks should call other app health checks in microservices or distributed systems? In Spring Boot and other frameworks, it’s essential to design efficient health monitoring to avoid unnecessary dependencies and performance issues. Ideally, health checks should validate their own service components like databases, APIs, and caches without creating circular calls. However, in some cases, aggregating multiple health indicators improves overall visibility and system stability. For healthcare and fertility-based applications, maintaining accurate and fast health responses is critical, especially when handling sensitive data like UPT positive results or patient reports. Implementing structured and independent health checks ensures better performance, reliability, and monitoring for enterprise-level applications, including those developed for Dr. Aravind’s Fertility Centre.