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KUBERNETES-BASICS5 MIN READ

Sort probe signals by purpose

Classify health-check examples by Kubernetes probe purpose.

The app is still loading a large route table during normal initialization Startup probe The process deadlocked and cannot recover without restart Liveness probe The app is alive but cannot connect to the required database for user requests Readiness probe The cache is warming and should not receive traffic yet Initialization may take up to 90 seconds on cold nodes The worker event loop is permanently stuck The Pod should be removed from Service endpoints temporarily Liveness should wait until startup has had enough time to finish

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