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Configure a load balancer health probe

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Configure a load balancer health probe

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- [Instructor] Great. Now that we have created our front end and back end for our load balancer, let's go and create a health probe. Health probes are used to check if the back end pools are working correctly. We can test different ports or even http. Let's click on the load balancer and then health probes. We can see that we have no health probes configured in the load balancer yet. So we will click on add. We will name the health probe HTTPProbe because we are going to be checking the http protocol. So in protocol, we will select HTTP. We could also select TCP and then select a port for that protocol. This case we selected HTTP, port 80. And because we don't have a specific path, we'll just leave the backslash there. The interval is five seconds which means that we will be checking every five seconds if our backend pool is delivering http requests on port 80. And our unhealthy threshold is two consecutive…

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