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📖 Carolopedia › LivenessGuide page
📖What it means
Whether something is actually alive right now, as opposed to merely configured to be. Liveness is proved by a signal, never assumed from the absence of an error.
⚖️What it is NOT
The neighbours this word is most often confused with, and the line between them.
Not: Uptime
Liveness is a state now; uptime is the share of time it held.
Not: Health
Liveness asks whether it is running; health asks whether it is running WELL.
🗣️Also called
alivenessis-it-running