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451

Unavailable For Legal Reasons

Access is denied for legal reasons, such as censorship or court order.

The 4xx class

4xx, Client errors. The request itself is at fault: bad syntax (400), missing authentication (401), forbidden (403), missing resource (404) or rate limited (429).

Monitoring for this code

Client-error responses on your own health checks usually mean a deployment or configuration bug (wrong route, missing credentials, rate limiting). Monitor the exact expected code: a 404 where you expect 200 should page you, while an expected 401 on a protected endpoint can be asserted as healthy.

Other 4xx status codes

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