Why Uvicorn Health Checks Fail Under Load (And How to Fix It Properly)
You deploy your FastAPI app to Kubernetes (or ECS).You configure a liveness probe on /health.Everything looks green.
Then traffic spikes.
Pods start restarting.
CrashLoopBackOff.
You check logs:
No Python exceptions
No OOM
CPU high, but not maxed
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