Container Apps Health Probes

Always configure health probes for production workloads.

Liveness Probe

Detects if container is alive. Failure triggers restart.

probes: [
  {
    type: 'liveness'
    httpGet: {
      path: '/health'
      port: 8080
    }
    initialDelaySeconds: 10
    periodSeconds: 30
    failureThreshold: 3
  }
]

Readiness Probe

Detects if container is ready to receive traffic.

probes: [
  {
    type: 'readiness'
    httpGet: {
      path: '/ready'
      port: 8080
    }
    initialDelaySeconds: 5
    periodSeconds: 10
    failureThreshold: 3
  }
]

Startup Probe

For slow-starting containers. Delays other probes until startup succeeds.

probes: [
  {
    type: 'startup'
    httpGet: {
      path: '/health'
      port: 8080
    }
    initialDelaySeconds: 0
    periodSeconds: 10
    failureThreshold: 30  // 30 * 10s = 5 min max startup
  }
]

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