Degraded endpoints

Routing to degraded hosts can be thought of as similar to routing to hosts in a lower priority, although degraded hosts will count against their original priority’s health percentage for the purposes of computing traffic spillover. As the amount of healthy hosts available is no longer sufficient to handle 100% of the load, traffic will spill over to degraded hosts using the same mechanism as priority spillover for healthy hosts. This ensures that traffic is gradually shifted to degraded hosts as it becomes necessary.

Endpoints can be marked as degraded by using active health checking and having the upstream host return a .