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Reliability · Medium severity

Missing Liveness Probe

A container that has hung but not exited is never restarted, so it keeps receiving traffic while serving nothing.

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3clouds covered
Mediumseverity
Riskwhere it shows up
Manualfix, change spelled out

AWSAzureGoogle CloudKubernetes

Found, explained, handed over.

Exposure and fragility, security posture and single points of failure.

01

Detect

ZopNight checks this automatically across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, with read-only access to the account.

02

Explain

Every finding says exactly what to change: Add a liveness probe to deployment.

03

Fix

The finding opens with the change already spelled out, so the fix is one ticket, not an investigation.

Applies to
EKS DaemonSets on AWS, EKS Deployments on AWS, EKS StatefulSets on AWS, AKS DaemonSets on Azure, AKS Deployments on Azure, AKS StatefulSets on Azure, GKE DaemonSets on Google Cloud, GKE Deployments on Google Cloud, GKE StatefulSets on Google Cloud
Category
Reliability. Production-shape issues that cause incidents and rework: single replicas, missing requests and limits, missing probes.
Where it appears
The Risk tab of Recommendations, with every affected resource listed.
Rule IDs
RC-1707 RC-1708 RC-1718 RC-1807 RC-1808 RC-1818 RC-1907 RC-1908 RC-1918
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Missing Liveness Probe

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