It's important to highlight something mentioned in the API specification—it's not intended (although it could be used) as a monitoring solution for human operators.

I would say—do not use it as a solution for human operators! In fact, don't use human operators for this!

Why am I saying this? Because of the increasing complexity of distributing your application, using a microservice approach will also increase the complexity of its monitoring and managing process. So, yes, use automated tools for that.

You can get more information about the Eclipse MicroProfile Health Check specification at https://github.com/eclipse/microprofile-health.