{
  "example": {
    "title": "Consul Service Registration and Health Check",
    "description": "Example Consul API call to register a microservice instance with health checks for service discovery in a scalable distributed system.",
    "request": {
      "method": "PUT",
      "url": "http://localhost:8500/v1/agent/service/register",
      "headers": {
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
        "X-Consul-Token": "{{CONSUL_TOKEN}}"
      },
      "body": {
        "ID": "payment-service-instance-1",
        "Name": "payment-service",
        "Tags": ["v2", "production", "payments"],
        "Address": "10.0.1.42",
        "Port": 8080,
        "Meta": {
          "version": "2.3.1",
          "region": "us-east-1",
          "environment": "production"
        },
        "Checks": [
          {
            "CheckID": "payment-service-http-check",
            "Name": "HTTP health check",
            "HTTP": "http://10.0.1.42:8080/healthz",
            "Interval": "10s",
            "Timeout": "3s",
            "DeregisterCriticalServiceAfter": "90s"
          },
          {
            "CheckID": "payment-service-grpc-check",
            "Name": "gRPC health check",
            "GRPC": "10.0.1.42:9090",
            "GRPCUseTLS": false,
            "Interval": "10s",
            "Timeout": "3s"
          }
        ],
        "Weights": {
          "Passing": 10,
          "Warning": 1
        }
      }
    },
    "response": {
      "status": 200,
      "body": null,
      "description": "Empty 200 response indicates successful service registration."
    },
    "discovery": {
      "description": "After registration, other services can discover this instance via:",
      "dnsQuery": "payment-service.service.consul",
      "httpQuery": "GET http://localhost:8500/v1/health/service/payment-service?passing=true",
      "response": [
        {
          "Node": {
            "ID": "node-id-uuid",
            "Node": "worker-node-1",
            "Address": "10.0.1.42"
          },
          "Service": {
            "ID": "payment-service-instance-1",
            "Service": "payment-service",
            "Tags": ["v2", "production", "payments"],
            "Address": "10.0.1.42",
            "Port": 8080
          },
          "Checks": [
            {
              "CheckID": "payment-service-http-check",
              "Status": "passing",
              "Output": "HTTP GET http://10.0.1.42:8080/healthz: 200 OK"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}