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@@ -2,13 +2,17 @@
 
 Frontend of the application is developed separately.
 
-The setup requires following steps:
+The setup requires the following steps:
 1) configure the application according to [Setup Guide](setup.md)
 2) configure `config.properties` to contain `security.sameSite=None`    
-   This is important if you are running the application over http so 
+   This is important if you are running the application over HTTP so 
    web browser would not block requests to the server due to CORS policy.
 3) build the backend `mvn clean package`
 4) Run the created application archive (`./target/record-manager.jar`)
 5) Checkout and run frontend
 
 Alternatively to step 2, a browser plugin can be used to disable CORS policy.
+
+## Health check
+
+To check that the backend is running, use path `/actuator/health` (e.g. `http://localhost:8080/record-manager/actuator/health`).