# /site/ping --\> Readiness probe

**URL:** <https://community.bloomreach.com/t/site-ping-readiness-probe/4869>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [May 19, 2026, 3:33am UTC](https://community.bloomreach.com/t/site-ping-readiness-probe/4869 "2026-05-19T03:33:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![kumamanish](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/community.bloomreach.com/kumamanish/32/1134_2.png) [@kumamanish](https://community.bloomreach.com/u/kumamanish)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2026, 3:33am UTC](https://community.bloomreach.com/t/site-ping-readiness-probe/4869/1 "2026-05-19T03:33:34Z")

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Hi team,

We are running **Bloomreach Experience Manager (brXM 14.5.0)** at AWS and in our deployment file we have added readiness like below :

```auto
readinessProbe:
  failureThreshold: 5
  httpGet:
    path: /site/ping/
    port: 8080
    scheme: HTTP
  initialDelaySeconds: 120
  periodSeconds: 10
  successThreshold: 1
  timeoutSeconds: 15

```

Now intermettently I am facing 502 bad gateway on cms ui. When we verified logs didn’t found any thing, we have grafana, I am sharing those details below :

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/uploads/bloomreach1/original/2X/7/71c35d2b20ab0a1a81780231d9509284807d4265.png)

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/uploads/bloomreach1/original/2X/d/d76f8955aba47e625f83ce31e07b2ab833b74c6a.png)

**setenv.sh**

```auto
#!/bin/sh

#
# ${CATALINA_BASE}/bin/setenv.sh
#
# This script is executed automatically by ${catalina.base}/catalina.sh.
#

# Repository configurations
REP_OPTS="-Drepo.path=${REPO_PATH} -Drepo.bootstrap=false -Drepo.config=${REPO_CONFIG} -Drepo.autoexport.allowed=false -Dhippo.search.index.rebuild=false"

# JAVA_OPTS="-verbose:class"
#Remove unless debugging: -XX:NativeMemoryTracking=summary
JAVA_OPTS="-Dproject.basedir=/brxm/project -Dcargo.jvm.args='-DCMS_BASEURL=${CMS_BASEURL}' -Delastic.apm.service_name=${APM_SERVICE_NAME} -Delastic.apm.application_packages=com.* -Delastic.apm.server_url=${APM_SERVER_URL} -Delastic.apm.secret_token=${APM_SECRET}"

# Logging configurations
L4J_OPTS="-DLOG_LEVEL=${LOG_LEVEL} -DLOG_LEVEL_CMS=${LOG_LEVEL_CMS} -DLOG_LEVEL_CUSTOM_CODE=${LOG_LEVEL_CUSTOM_CODE} -Dlog4j.configurationFile=file://${CATALINA_HOME}/conf/log4j2.xml -DLog4jContextSelector=org.apache.logging.log4j.core.selector.BasicContextSelector"

if ["${APM_ENABLED}" == true]
then
	# JVM heap size options
	JVM_OPTS="-XX:NewRatio=1 -javaagent:/usr/local/tomcat/apm-agent/elastic-apm-agent-1.26.0.jar -server -Xms12g -Xmx12g -XX:+UseG1GC -XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=200 -XX:InitiatingHeapOccupancyPercent=45 -XX:+ParallelRefProcEnabled -XX:+DisableExplicitGC -XX:+ExitOnOutOfMemoryError -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -XX:HeapDumpPath=${CATALINA_HOME}/temp -XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=1g -XX:+AlwaysPreTouch -Djava.util.Arrays.useLegacyMergeSort=true -Dorg.apache.catalina.connector.URI_ENCODING=UTF-8 -Dserver.tomcat.max-threads=200 -Dserver.tomcat.max-connections=10000 -Dserver.tomcat.accept-count=100"
else
	# JVM heap size options
	JVM_OPTS="-server -Xms12g -Xmx$12g -XX:+UseG1GC -XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=200 -XX:InitiatingHeapOccupancyPercent=45 -XX:+ParallelRefProcEnabled -XX:+DisableExplicitGC -XX:+ExitOnOutOfMemoryError -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -XX:HeapDumpPath=${CATALINA_HOME}/temp -XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=1g -XX:+AlwaysPreTouch -Djava.util.Arrays.useLegacyMergeSort=true -Dorg.apache.catalina.connector.URI_ENCODING=UTF-8 -Dserver.tomcat.max-threads=200 -Dserver.tomcat.max-connections=10000 -Dserver.tomcat.accept-count=100"
fi

#Visual VM's
# VISUAL_VM_OPTS="-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.local.only=false -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=1099 -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.rmi.port=1099 -Djava.rmi.server.hostname=127.0.0.1"

# JVM garbage Collector options
VGC_OPTS="-verbosegc -XX:+PrintGCDetails -XX:+PrintGCDateStamps -Xloggc:${CATALINA_HOME}/logs/gc.log -XX:+UseGCLogFileRotation -XX:NumberOfGCLogFiles=5 -XX:GCLogFileSize=2048k"

# JVM heapdump options
# DMP_OPTS="-XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=200 -XX:+ParallelRefProcEnabled -XX:+ExitOnOutOfMemoryError -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -XX:HeapDumpPath=${CATALINA_HOME}/temp -XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=1g -XX:+AlwaysPreTouch"

#CATALINA_OPTS=" ${JAVA_OPTS} ${JVM_OPTS} ${VGC_OPTS} ${REP_OPTS} ${DMP_OPTS} ${L4J_OPTS}"
# CATALINA_OPTS="${VISUAL_VM_OPTS} ${JAVA_OPTS} ${JVM_OPTS} ${VGC_OPTS} ${REP_OPTS} ${L4J_OPTS}"
CATALINA_OPTS="${JAVA_OPTS} ${JVM_OPTS} ${VGC_OPTS} ${REP_OPTS} ${L4J_OPTS}"

```

I have tuned the jvm opts, please suggest for any correction.

and kubectl describe pod {pod-name} details below :

```auto
Events:
  Type Reason Age From Message
  ---- ------ ---- ---- -------
  Normal Scheduled 15m default-scheduler Successfully assigned default/bloomreach-cms to ip-172-17-9-191.eu-west-1.compute.internal
  Normal Pulling 15m kubelet Pulling image "84512547.amazonaws.com/default/bloomreach-cms:20"
  Normal Pulled 15m kubelet Successfully pulled image "84512547.amazonaws.com/default/bloomreach-cms:20" in 5.157s (5.157s including waiting). Image size: 394696117 bytes.
  Normal Created 15m kubelet Container created
  Normal Started 15m kubelet Container started
  Warning Unhealthy 3m9s (x41 over 13m) kubelet Readiness probe failed: Get "http://172.17.8.70:8080/site/ping/": context deadline exceeded (Client.Timeout exceeded while awaiting headers)

```

I always get 502, when I searched , found that **/site/ping/** is a heavy request path that causes instability, and got suggestion for some custom endoint for health check i.e. `/cmsinternal/ping` correctly serves Kubernetes health checks.

I want help for this 502 issues, and if needed can we add `/cmsinternal/ping ` and how?, If I do not use **/site/ping/** will it impact real flow for health check that is really needed!.