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@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ These clients are part of a [gossip pool](/docs/internals/gossip.html), which
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serves several functions including distributed health checking. The gossip protocol implements
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an efficient failure detector that can scale to clusters of any size without concentrating
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the work on any select group of servers. The clients also enable a much richer set of health checks to be run locally,
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whereas ZooKeeper ephemeral nodes are a very primitve check of liveness. Clients can check that
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whereas ZooKeeper ephemeral nodes are a very primitive check of liveness. Clients can check that
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a web server is returning 200 status codes, that memory utilization is not critical, there is sufficient
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disk space, etc. The Consul clients expose a simple HTTP interface and avoid exposing the complexity
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of the system is to clients in the same way as ZooKeeper.
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