# Get Status

Service health, API version, and current server time.

_Source: https://beta.taostats.io/docs/new/status/get-status_

_Last reviewed: 2026-10-07_

```http
GET https://api.taostats.io/v1/status
```

Requires an API key in the `Authorization` header.

Service health, API version, and current server time.

## Try it

Try this request in the browser on the HTML version of this page, or use the code samples below.

### Code samples

**cURL**

```bash
curl -H "Authorization: <YOUR_API_KEY>" \
  "https://api.taostats.io/v1/status"
```

**JavaScript**

```js
const response = await fetch('https://api.taostats.io/v1/status', {
  headers: {
    Authorization: '<YOUR_API_KEY>',
  },
});
const data = await response.json();
```

**Python**

```python
import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.taostats.io/v1/status",
    headers={"Authorization": "<YOUR_API_KEY>"},
)
data = response.json()
```

## Parameters

_No parameters._

## Responses

### `200` — Service is healthy

| Field | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `ok` | `boolean` | Yes | Service health status. Always `true` while the process is serving. |
| `timestamp` | `string` | Yes | Current server time as an ISO 8601 string with millisecond precision and a trailing `Z`, e.g. `2024-05-15T10:30:00.000Z`. |
| `version` | `string` | Yes | API version, taken from `Cargo.toml` at compile time (e.g. `0.1.0`). |

Every request needs an `Authorization` header holding your API key — see [Getting started with the Taostats API](https://beta.taostats.io/docs/start-here/getting-started-with-taostats-api).