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Jul 10, 2023
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How to tackle the downtime for maintenance of nginx

By default the health check time is 5 seconds and 16 s is the time out time for a server added under f5 pool. When we take down one server for maintenance, for 16 s we are seeing alternative request ...
  • Nikoolayy1's avatar
    Jul 11, 2023

    See https://docs.nginx.com/nginx/admin-guide/load-balancer/http-health-check/

     

    http {
        #...    match server_ok {
            status 200-399;
            body   !~ "maintenance mode";
        }
        server {
            #...        location / {
                proxy_pass   http://backend;
                health_check match=server_ok;
            }
        }
    }

     

    Here the health check is passed if the status code of the response is in the range 200–399, and its body does not contain the string maintenance mode.