></div><p>To confirm that the liveness probes are working, check the status of the sample pod to verify that it is running.</p><pre><code class=language-bash data-expandlinks=true data-repo=istio>$ kubectl -n istio-io-health get pod
NAME                             READY     STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
liveness-6857c8775f-zdv9r        2/2       Running   0           4m
</code></pre><h2 id=liveness-and-readiness-probes-using-the-http-request-approach>Liveness and readiness probes using the HTTP request approach