# Is there any way to temporary disable liveness probe on pg operator managed pods?

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**Category:** Percona Everest\
**Created:** [March 3, 2025, 9:46pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/is-there-any-way-to-temporary-disable-liveness-probe-on-pg-operator-managed-pods/37027 "2025-03-03T21:46:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![pstekunov](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/pstekunov/32/20328_2.png) [@pstekunov](https://forums.percona.com/u/pstekunov)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2025, 9:46pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/is-there-any-way-to-temporary-disable-liveness-probe-on-pg-operator-managed-pods/37027/1 "2025-03-03T21:46:45Z")

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Dear gents.

I just setup everest + pg operator + pg Cluster.  
Trying to restore a database, but after some minutes database pod container is being restarted…

Liveness probe failed: HTTP probe failed with statuscode: 503

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**Author:** ![pstekunov](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/pstekunov/32/20328_2.png) [@pstekunov](https://forums.percona.com/u/pstekunov)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2025, 10:24pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/is-there-any-way-to-temporary-disable-liveness-probe-on-pg-operator-managed-pods/37027/2 "2025-03-03T22:24:16Z")

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It was related to pmm client  
I turned it off and no restarts anymore

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**Author:** ![daniil.bazhenov](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/daniil.bazhenov/32/62_2.png) [@daniil.bazhenov](https://forums.percona.com/u/daniil.bazhenov)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 7:42am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/is-there-any-way-to-temporary-disable-liveness-probe-on-pg-operator-managed-pods/37027/3 "2025-04-23T07:42:31Z")

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Thanks for letting us know, we’ll have to check it out