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	# Services List

	
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		**Read the Services list in the DreamFactory admin console, including the Health column that scores role access and probes each service's live connection**

## Contents

- [1 The Services List](#The_Services_List)

- [1.1 The Health column](#The_Health_column)

- [1.1.1 What it costs](#What_it_costs)

- [1.2 Health on a service's own page](#Health_on_a_service's_own_page)

- [1.3 Next steps](#Next_steps)

- [1.4 See also](#See_also)

# The Services List

Every generated API appears in the Services list, grouped by type under **API Generation & Connections** — Database, Scripting, Network, File, Utility, and the read-only **DreamFactory Platform APIs**.

Alongside each service's name, label, description and type, the list carries a **Health** column.

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## The Health column

Health answers a narrow, practical question: *would a call to this service work right now?* It combines two independent signals.

**Governance** — does any active role grant a key access to this service? A service no role can reach is unreachable by any API key, however well configured it otherwise is.

**Connection** — can the service actually answer? DreamFactory probes it live: `/_schema` for database services, `/` for file storage. Service types with no defined probe are not guessed at.

Chip

Meaning

**Healthy**

A role grants access *and* the connection answered

**Action required**

Something is wrong — open the service to see what

**Not checked**

Governance passed, but this API type has no automatic connection check

**Checking…**

The probe is in flight

**ℹ️ Note: Healthy means verified, not assumed** "Not checked" is deliberately distinct from "Healthy". A scripting, remote or authentication service has no connection DreamFactory knows how to test, so it reports that it was not checked rather than claiming health it cannot prove. Only a service whose connection actually answered reports Healthy.
Selecting a flagged chip lists the failing checks, each linking to the configuration that clears it.

### What it costs

The connection probe runs for the services **on the current page** of the list, not the whole catalog — cost tracks your page size, not how many services you have. Verdicts are cached per service, so paging back and forth does not reopen connections.

The **DreamFactory Platform APIs** list has no Health column: those services are reached with an admin session rather than a role grant, and have no connection to probe, so neither signal would say anything meaningful.

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## Health on a service's own page

Opening a service shows the same verdict expanded: one row per failing check, each with a link to the configuration that fixes it, and — for a failed connection — the error from the driver, with the status, request and raw response behind a **Details** expander.

A service with nothing to act on collapses to a single line, so the panel stays out of the way of the configuration form.

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## Next steps

- **[Role-Based Access Control](/Security/Role_Based_Access)**: Grant a role access to a service

- **[API Keys](/Api_Keys)**: Bind a key to a role

## See also

- [Event Scripts](/Event_Scripts)

- [Interacting With the API](/Interacting_With_Api)

- [Advanced Database API Features](/Advanced_Database_Api_Features)

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