diff --git a/kubernetes/common/music/components/music-cassandra/templates/statefulset.yaml b/kubernetes/common/music/components/music-cassandra/templates/statefulset.yaml
index 665cdaa..2a1fb4f 100644
--- a/kubernetes/common/music/components/music-cassandra/templates/statefulset.yaml
+++ b/kubernetes/common/music/components/music-cassandra/templates/statefulset.yaml
@@ -58,6 +58,9 @@
             - nodetool status | grep $POD_IP | awk '$1!="UN" { exit 1; }'
           initialDelaySeconds: {{ .Values.liveness.initialDelaySeconds }}
           periodSeconds: {{ .Values.liveness.periodSeconds }}
+          timeoutSeconds: {{ .Values.liveness.timeoutSeconds }}
+          successThreshold: {{ .Values.liveness.successThreshold }}
+          failureThreshold: {{ .Values.liveness.failureThreshold }}
         {{ end -}}
         readinessProbe:
           exec:
@@ -67,6 +70,9 @@
             - nodetool status | grep $POD_IP | awk '$1!="UN" { exit 1; }'
           initialDelaySeconds: {{ .Values.readiness.initialDelaySeconds }}
           periodSeconds: {{ .Values.readiness.periodSeconds }}
+          timeoutSeconds: {{ .Values.readiness.timeoutSeconds }}
+          successThreshold: {{ .Values.readiness.successThreshold }}
+          failureThreshold: {{ .Values.readiness.failureThreshold }}
         lifecycle:
           preStop:
             exec:
diff --git a/kubernetes/common/music/components/music-cassandra/values.yaml b/kubernetes/common/music/components/music-cassandra/values.yaml
index 317087c..8530172 100644
--- a/kubernetes/common/music/components/music-cassandra/values.yaml
+++ b/kubernetes/common/music/components/music-cassandra/values.yaml
@@ -73,7 +73,10 @@
 # probe configuration parameters
 liveness:
   initialDelaySeconds: 120
-  periodSeconds: 10
+  periodSeconds: 20
+  timeoutSeconds: 10
+  successThreshold: 1
+  failureThreshold: 3
   # necessary to disable liveness probe when setting breakpoints
   # in debugger so K8s doesn't restart unresponsive container
   enabled: true
@@ -82,7 +85,10 @@
 
 readiness:
   initialDelaySeconds: 10
-  periodSeconds: 10
+  periodSeconds: 20
+  timeoutSeconds: 10
+  successThreshold: 1
+  failureThreshold: 3
 
 podManagementPolicy: OrderedReady
 updateStrategy:
diff --git a/kubernetes/portal/components/portal-cassandra/templates/deployment.yaml b/kubernetes/portal/components/portal-cassandra/templates/deployment.yaml
index 20c396f..59eace6 100644
--- a/kubernetes/portal/components/portal-cassandra/templates/deployment.yaml
+++ b/kubernetes/portal/components/portal-cassandra/templates/deployment.yaml
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@
               nodetool status
           initialDelaySeconds: {{ .Values.liveness.initialDelaySeconds }}
           periodSeconds: {{ .Values.liveness.periodSeconds }}
+          timeoutSeconds: {{ .Values.liveness.timeoutSeconds }}
           successThreshold: {{ .Values.liveness.successThreshold }}
           failureThreshold: {{ .Values.liveness.failureThreshold }}
         {{ end }}
@@ -74,6 +75,7 @@
               nodetool status | grep -E "^UN\\s+${POD_IP}"
           initialDelaySeconds: {{ .Values.readiness.initialDelaySeconds }}
           periodSeconds: {{ .Values.readiness.periodSeconds }}
+          timeoutSeconds: {{ .Values.readiness.timeoutSeconds }}
           successThreshold: {{ .Values.readiness.successThreshold }}
           failureThreshold: {{ .Values.readiness.failureThreshold }}
         lifecycle:
diff --git a/kubernetes/portal/components/portal-cassandra/values.yaml b/kubernetes/portal/components/portal-cassandra/values.yaml
index b06761a..bed75e5 100644
--- a/kubernetes/portal/components/portal-cassandra/values.yaml
+++ b/kubernetes/portal/components/portal-cassandra/values.yaml
@@ -53,16 +53,18 @@
 # probe configuration parameters
 liveness:
   initialDelaySeconds: 10
-  periodSeconds: 10
+  periodSeconds: 20
+  timeoutSeconds: 10
+  successThreshold: 1
+  failureThreshold: 3
   # necessary to disable liveness probe when setting breakpoints
   # in debugger so K8s doesn't restart unresponsive container
   enabled: true
-  successThreshold: 1
-  failureThreshold: 3
 
 readiness:
   initialDelaySeconds: 10
-  periodSeconds: 10
+  periodSeconds: 20
+  timeoutSeconds: 10
   successThreshold: 1
   failureThreshold: 3