<p>Started seeing this error for the first time in a year and unsure how to debug (not very familiar with k8s)</p>
<p>{@type: type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.loadbalancing.type.LoadBalancerLogEntry, statusDetails: failed_to_pick_backend}</p>

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<p><strong>failed_to_pick_backend</strong> - The load balancer failed to pick a healthy backend to handle the request.</p>
<p>Debug tips:</p>
<ul>
<li>List the pods the load balancer pointing to.</li>
<li>Make sure that <a href="https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/configure-liveness-readiness-startup-probes/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">probes</a> (ie. readiness, liveness) are configured.</li>
<li>Describe the pods ( <code>kubectl describe pods &lt;pod_name&gt; -n &lt;namespace&gt;</code>) to see why the health check is failing.</li>
<li>Fix the health check problem. Once the pods are healthy, give the load balancer some time (sometimes it takes hours) to update the status.</li>
</ul>
