diff --git a/services/maintenance/apps/ariadne-deployment.yaml b/services/maintenance/apps/ariadne-deployment.yaml
index aeaf194a9..218e1aeec 100644
--- a/services/maintenance/apps/ariadne-deployment.yaml
+++ b/services/maintenance/apps/ariadne-deployment.yaml
@@ -565,15 +565,26 @@ spec:
             limits:
               cpu: 500m
               memory: 512Mi
+          # timeoutSeconds defaults to 1, which this pod cannot honour. The
+          # auto-triage tick runs every minute and spends most of it waiting on
+          # Jenkins, OpenSearch, Gitea and Hermes; against a 500m CPU limit the
+          # event loop occasionally takes longer than a second to answer
+          # /health. Three of those in a row and the kubelet kills a container
+          # that is working perfectly well. Observed 11 times in 139 minutes,
+          # each one dropping triage ticks for the length of a restart.
           livenessProbe:
             httpGet:
               path: /health
               port: http
             initialDelaySeconds: 10
             periodSeconds: 10
+            timeoutSeconds: 5
+            failureThreshold: 5
           readinessProbe:
             httpGet:
               path: /health
               port: http
             initialDelaySeconds: 5
             periodSeconds: 10
+            timeoutSeconds: 5
+            failureThreshold: 3