It was suggested that in the context of microservices managed by Kubernetes / Openshift, Hibernate could expose an "health check" status.

Alternatively, people could simply use the status from the connection pool directly, but having a well defined API for this would make it simpler to use and we could register it among other standard management operations.

Introducing a standard API would also allow Hibernate OGM to implement the same higher level API without people needing to get into specifics of how each NoSQL database deals with it. Wondering if even the RDBMS world could benefit from ORM's Dialects as I guess status checks might be nonstandard among traditional databases as well.