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 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 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 the pool. This can lead to service disruption for web clients. Because of this,
disruption for web clients. Because of this, we recommend always configuring we recommend always configuring production load balancers to use a health
production load balancers to use a health monitor. monitor.
The health monitor itself is a process that does periodic health checks on each 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 back-end server to pre-emptively detect failed servers and temporarily pull