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Learning term

Readiness probe — Monitoring and observability

Readiness probe separates process liveness from readiness to receive real traffic. This card shows its role in “Monitoring and observability” and a safe diagnostic path.

Monitoring and observabilityLevel 0–3

Orientation

Readiness probe separates process liveness from readiness to receive real traffic. At this level, separate purpose, input, and visible result. Place Readiness probe within Monitoring and observability before changing settings or files.

Exercise

Try it safely

Keep readiness failing during model loading without repeatedly restarting the slow process. Open an isolated test environment and run “curl -s https://example.com/health”. Write down the expected output first, do not alter production data, and record one safe next diagnostic step.

curl -s https://example.com/health

Quick check

Can you explain the purpose, observable state, and most common failure source of Readiness probe — Monitoring and observability in one sentence each? Which evidence would you preserve before changing anything, and which repeated test would prove that the correction actually worked?