alth-probes-will-no-longer-re-use-connections>Health Probes will no longer re-use connections</h2><p>Health probes using the istio-agent <a href=/v1.24/docs/ops/configuration/mesh/app-health-check/>health probe rewrite</a> will
now no longer re-use connections for the probe. This behavior was changed to match probing behavior of Kubernetes&rsquo;,
and may also improve probe reliability for applications using short idle timeouts.</p><p>As a result, your application may see more connections (but the same numb