# Health Checks

All ESS services support and are configured with [Kubernetes liveness, readiness and startup probes](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/configure-liveness-readiness-startup-probes/) . These allow Kubernetes to check the health of each service, and automatically manage the lifecycle of ESS services, providing reliability and resiliency.

### Startup probes

```yaml
startupProbe:
  httpGet:
    path: /q/health/started
    port: 8443
    scheme: HTTPS
  failureThreshold: 120
  periodSeconds: 1
```

Startup probes allow Kubernetes to detect when a newly created container has completed starting up. Other probes will not be performed on it until it has finished starting up.

### Readiness probes

```yaml
livenessProbe:
  httpGet:
    path: /q/health/live
    port: 8443
    scheme: HTTPS
  timeoutSeconds: 1
  failureThreshold: 30
  periodSeconds: 10
```

Readiness probes indicate to Kubernetes that the service is ready and able to receive requests. A Pod with containers that are failing readiness probes will be removed from its associated Services, and thus will not receive requests until it returns to a ready state.

### Liveness probes

```yaml
readinessProbe:
  httpGet:
    path: /q/health/ready
    port: 8443
    scheme: HTTPS
  timeoutSeconds: 30
  periodSeconds: 10
  successThreshold: 1
  failureThreshold: 3
```

Liveness probes indicate to Kubernetes whether the container needs to be restarted.