Kong status API is invoked every 3 seconds

[bharanitharanm]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

Kong version ($ kong version)

3.4.2

Current Behavior

In Kong logs, I can see the below logs are logged every 3 seconds

127.0.0.1 - - [28/Feb/2025:11:17:47 +0000] "GET /status HTTP/1.1" 200 1317 "-" "Go-http-client/1.1"
127.0.0.1 - - [28/Feb/2025:11:17:50 +0000] "GET /status HTTP/1.1" 200 1317 "-" "Go-http-client/1.1"
127.0.0.1 - - [28/Feb/2025:11:17:53 +0000] "GET /status HTTP/1.1" 200 1317 "-" "Go-http-client/1.1"

How to increase the frequency to 60 seconds ? OR How to disable altogather

Expected Behavior

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Steps To Reproduce

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Anything else?

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[Water-Melon]

As far as I know, Kong itself doesn't set such a timer. Could you try capturing the process that sends these requests?

[DMaxter]

Can it be that it is some kind of liveness probe? If you are running in a Kubernetes environment that might be it, but the timeframe is 5s and usually the user agent is kube-probe...

Might also be from Kong gateway operator?

[bharanitharanm]

I'm deploying in Kubernetes environement, liveness probe and readiness probe frequency is 60 seconds and 30 seconds respectively for both Kong (Proxy) and ingress controller.

I'm not using Kong gateway operator

[DMaxter]

Can it be some kind of load balancer you are using? After that I'm out of ideas

[bharanitharanm]

I'm deploying in a K3S environment which has a default load balancer ServiceLB