# Health Check Not Using Backend API Docker Hostname
**URL:** https://community.traefik.io/t/health-check-not-using-backend-api-docker-hostname/28077
**Category:** Traefik v3 (latest)
**Tags:** docker, file, middleware
**Created:** [August 2, 2025, 6:28pm UTC](https://community.traefik.io/t/health-check-not-using-backend-api-docker-hostname/28077 "2025-08-02T18:28:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@MaxwellAllen216](https://community.traefik.io/u/MaxwellAllen216)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2025, 6:28pm UTC](https://community.traefik.io/t/health-check-not-using-backend-api-docker-hostname/28077/1 "2025-08-02T18:28:26Z")
Hi,
I am very new to using Traefik and just want to set it up so I can enable https and use health checks to ensure the API services are healthy before proceeding with the request.
Currently, no matter what I do, the health checks fail because it tries calling the health endpoint without the proper hostname.
**It calls:** https:///api/api/health?type=ready
**When it should call:** [http://api:3000/health?type=ready](http://api:3000/health?type=ready)
The only thing that has worked is if I set the path to the full url, rather than just give it a path. Like this:
services:
```
api-service:
loadBalancer:
servers:
- url: 'http://api:3000'
healthCheck:
path: https://\[domain\].com/api/health?type=ready
interval: '5s'
timeout: '2s'
```
I don’t know why this is happening. The only reason I can think of is if it is because my .NET API enables `UseHttpsRedirection`.
Does anyone know how I can fix this? Thanks.
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### Author:  [@MaxwellAllen216](https://community.traefik.io/u/MaxwellAllen216)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2025, 6:32pm UTC](https://community.traefik.io/t/health-check-not-using-backend-api-docker-hostname/28077/2 "2025-08-02T18:32:30Z")
LMAO, JFC. Nevermind. It indeed was due to `UseHttpsRedirection`. Should have tried it first.