What should the URL be for Readiness and Liveness Probe Endpoints? What should the URL be for Readiness and Liveness Probe Endpoints? kubernetes kubernetes

What should the URL be for Readiness and Liveness Probe Endpoints?


The Kubernetes docs use /healthz, which I'd say is advisable to follow; but you really can use whatever you want.

I believe healthz is used to keep it inline with zpages, which are described by OpenCensus:

https://opencensus.io/zpages/


AFAIK, you can use whatever you want and it's whatever you put in your application. If you have a way in your application to differentiate between "Ready" and "Alive". Either one of these using a GET request works:

/ready/live

or

/status/ready/status/live

Note that generally 'alive' means that your app has come up and 'ready' means that your app is ready to serve traffic.