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Liveness probe

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In software engineering, liveness probe means: In Kubernetes, a check used to determine whether a running container needs to be restarted.

In Turkish: canlılık yoklaması

How it is used

Used for unrecoverable running-state failures. Repeated failures can trigger restarts; do not confuse it with readiness for traffic.

Example sentences

  1. The liveness probe triggered a restart after the worker stopped responding internally.

    The check treats the process as stuck even though it has not exited.

  2. An overly strict liveness probe caused repeated restarts during normal load spikes.

    A poorly chosen check can worsen temporary slowness by repeatedly killing useful work.

Common collocations

  • configure a liveness probe
  • liveness probe threshold
  • health checkA regular automatic test, often a request to a special URL such as /health, that checks whether a server or service is working and able to take traffic.
  • containerA lightweight, isolated package that holds an application together with everything it needs to run, so it behaves the same on a laptop, a test server or in the cloud.

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