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Indicium service health checkCompleted

Currently, Indicium itself provides no way to check if the service (and its dependencies) is/are healthy. For our transition to a microservice architecture for internal systems, some of which connect to Indicium as a data source, such a health check would be great to have.Here are some elements I would say are required for a meaningful health check:Service availability This is the most basic check, basically just tells us if Indicium is running at all. Database connectivity In the context of Thinkwise software probably the second most important check, it tells us whether the Indicium service layer is successfully connected to the database. Database responsiveness Probably the most important check for Thinkwise software, it tells us the responsiveness of the database, which is generally a good indication of overall performance. Available memory It tells us how much system memory is available to the Indicium application. A useful indicator for performance, caching and, for Universal specifically, availability for staging resources. Some optional nice-to-haves include:Available disk storage Depending on if Indicium ever writes to disk, it is useful to get an indication how much disk storage is available to the application. Backup database connectivity If present, a check telling us whether Indicium can successfully connect to the back-up database in case something happens to the primary database is a useful indicator of continued availability. App version check Tells us which version of Indicium itself or the implemented application is running. I think this would be a good addition to Indicium as part of the Thinkwise platform, as well as a step forward to allowing other software to integrate with Indicium as a service easier and securely.Should anyone have any questions, concerns or additional requirements, do please leave them in the comments!Thanks in advance. PS: This idea was based on a Thinkwise Community question posted earlier about the existence of a health check.