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Unlike other endpoints, the timeout for the health check endpoint will not be 90 seconds. If a consecutive number of N failures reported by this endpoint is required before automated tooling declares the worker unhealthy, then waiting N * 1.5 minutes for an issue with worker health to be detected is likely to be too long. Instead, the timeout for this endpoint will be 10 seconds. This timeout will apply regardless of whether the worker is currently starting up or has already completed startup; in other words, a request to the health check endpoint during worker startup will block for at least 10 seconds before receiving a 503 response. In the future, the timeout may be made user-configurable if, for example, KIP-882: Kafka Connect REST API configuration validation timeout improvements or something like it is adopted.
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