Nginx Health Check Failing

sivaatluri
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Hi,

 We are loadbalancing between  Java App Servers using Nginx Load Balancer, we had configured health checks.

For Max 3 failures it should not send the traffic, but nginx is still sending the traffic
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gheist
Top Expert 2015

Commented:
Can you provide configuration sniplet?
default fail_timeout is 10s which is more than sufficient to restart tomcat or jetty
sivaatluri

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Commented:
But if the service is down in some odd hours, the 10s time would not be sufficient.

server 10.0.61.65:5010 weight=10 max_fails=3 fail_timeout=40s;
server 10.0.60.75:5001 weight=10 max_fails=3 fail_timeout=40s;
sivaatluri

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Commented:
Ghiest can you help me with this?
Top Expert 2015
Commented:
your timeout is huge. make it default 10s. (Users will not wait for 40s for that one first failed request to time out.

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