istio.io/istio@v0.0.0-20240520182934-d79c90f27776/releasenotes/notes/agent-probe-keepalives.yaml (about) 1 apiVersion: release-notes/v2 2 kind: bug-fix 3 area: traffic-management 4 issue: 5 - 36390 6 7 releaseNotes: 8 - | 9 **Improved** istio-agent health probe rewrite to not re-use connections, mirring Kubernetes' probing behavior. 10 11 upgradeNotes: 12 - title: Health Probes will no longer re-use connections 13 content: | 14 Health probes using the istio-agent [health probe rewrite](https://istio.io/latest/docs/ops/configuration/mesh/app-health-check/) will 15 now no longer re-use connections for the probe. This behavior was changed to match probing behavior of Kubernetes', 16 and may also improve probe reliability for applications using short idle timeouts. 17 18 As a result, your application may see more connections (but the same number of HTTP requests) from probes. 19 For most applications, this will not be noticeably different. 20 21 If you need to revert to the old behavior, the `ENABLE_PROBE_KEEPALIVE_CONNECTION=true` environment variable in the proxy may be set.