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# Health Checks

# Health Checks on macOS

How to see whether the Gateway and linked channels are healthy from the menu bar app.

## Menu bar

* Status dot reflects Gateway/channel health:
  * Green: gateway reachable and linked channel sockets opened recently when channel data is available.
  * Orange: connecting/retrying.
  * Red: logged out or probe failed.
* Secondary line reads "linked · auth 12m" or shows the failure reason.
* "Run Health Check" menu item triggers an on-demand probe.

## Settings

* General tab has a Health card showing linked auth age, session-store
  path/count, last check time, last error/status code, and buttons for Run
  Health Check / Reveal Logs.
* Uses a cached snapshot so the UI loads instantly and falls back gracefully when offline.
* Channel account setup and routing are managed in the browser Control UI under
  **Agent > Channels**. The macOS app can surface health, but it is not the
  source of truth for Agent routing.

## How the probe works

* App runs `fased health --json` via `ShellExecutor` every \~60s and on demand.
  The probe loads creds and reports status without sending messages.
* Cache the last good snapshot and the last error separately to avoid flicker;
  show the timestamp of each.

## When in doubt

* You can still use the CLI flow in [Gateway health](/gateway/health)
  (`fased status`, `fased status --deep`, `fased health --json`) and
  `fased logs --follow` for gateway diagnostics.