ECO-INF-K8S-003¶
Name: Overly aggressive health probes
Category: Infrastructure
Family: Kubernetes
Primary layer: process
System layers: process, network
Description¶
Health probes that run more often than necessary or do expensive work can create avoidable load on applications and the cluster control path.
Impact¶
- cost: Probe overhead adds up across many pods.
- performance: Expensive probes can compete with application work.
- carbon: Repeated low-value probe traffic and execution waste resources.
Detection¶
- method: yaml-k8s
- selector: aggressive_health_probes
Remediation¶
- guidance: Tune probe frequency and probe implementation so checks are lightweight and proportional to real operational need.
- examples:
- Avoid high-frequency probes that trigger full dependency checks on every interval.
Pattern examples¶
No pattern examples provided.
Remediation examples¶
No remediation examples provided.
Metadata¶
- status: draft
- severity: medium
- version: 0.3.0-draft