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I setup health checking. When I fail some hosts, Envoy starts routing to all of them again. Why?

docs/root/faq/load_balancing/lb_panic_threshold.rst

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I setup health checking. When I fail some hosts, Envoy starts routing to all of them again. Why?

This feature is known as the load balancer :ref:panic threshold <arch_overview_load_balancing_panic_threshold>. It is used to prevent cascading failure when upstream hosts start failing health checks in large numbers.