Kong: passive health checks never bring a target back

Passive checks (the circuit breaker) mark a target unhealthy from real traffic, but nothing sends traffic to an unhealthy target - so nothing can ever mark it healthy again. Only an active check can recover one.

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Published 2026-08-25