Merge "Clarify health monitor behavior"

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Zuul 2020-06-23 08:06:09 +00:00 committed by Gerrit Code Review
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@ -779,9 +779,9 @@ Health Monitor Best Practices
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While it is possible to set up a listener without a health monitor, if a
back-end pool member goes down, Octavia will not remove the failed server from
the pool until a considerable time has passed. This can lead to service
disruption for web clients. Because of this, we recommend always configuring
production load balancers to use a health monitor.
the pool. This can lead to service disruption for web clients. Because of this,
we recommend always configuring production load balancers to use a health
monitor.
The health monitor itself is a process that does periodic health checks on each
back-end server to pre-emptively detect failed servers and temporarily pull