Load balancing
Routing rule
boolean
enable_health_checks
Actively probe backends and remove unhealthy ones from rotation.
- Config key
enable_health_checks- Scope
- Routing rule
- Type
- boolean
- Default
false
When enabled, the proxy periodically probes each backend and stops routing to any that fail, returning them once they recover. Essential for real failover — without it a dead backend keeps receiving (and failing) requests.
enable_health_checks = true