</h2><p>As stated previously, Istio uses probe rewrite to implement HTTP probes by default. You can disable this
feature either for specific pods, or globally.</p><h3 id=disable-the-http-probe-rewrite-for-a-pod>Disable the HTTP probe rewrite for a pod</h3><p>You can <a href=/v1.9/docs/reference/config/annotations/>annotate the pod</a> with <code>sidecar.istio.io/rewriteAppHTTPProbers: "false"</code>
to disable the probe rewrite option. Make sure you add the annotation to the
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