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One app instance keeps flapping out of the load balancer pool, yet between bursts it serves traffic happily. Where do you look?

Self-healing unavailability is a timeout arithmetic story. Pull the balancer's removal timestamps, lay them against the GC log, and the pause that ejects the instance will be sitting there in plain sight.

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Self-healing unavailability is a timeout arithmetic story. Pull the balancer's removal timestamps, lay them against the GC log, and the pause that ejects the instance will be sitting there in plain sight.

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