Process supervisors like launchd KeepAlive and Kubernetes liveness probes look like they overlap, but they cover different failure modes. KeepAlive only notices when a process has exited — a worker stuck inside an event loop, a GIL hold, or a blocked syscall is still 'alive' to the supervisor. You need a separate layer that exercises the actual response path on a deadline and recycles on stall. Treat the two as complementary, not redundant.
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