Traefik routes to another service instead of returning 503 when /api backend is down

[coldbhop]

Hi,

you could try merging the two ingresses into one (though, I'm not 100% if it'll fix it, but I don't see a reason to have two different ingress objects for that use case). I'm a bit low on time and unable to setup such a scenario to test it.
The same question was asked a couple of days ago here (there, you'll also find the two merged ingress objects):

How to prevent traefik from falling back to another matching ingress on 503?

is there a reason you created two different ingress objects? You can just create multiple paths for such a use case and I'm not 100% sure, but I think this might also fix your issue: apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1 kind: Ingress metadata: name: example-ingress spec: ingressClassName: traefik rules: - host: "example.com" http: paths: - path: / pathType: Prefix backend: service: name: b port:…