diff --git a/kubernetes/dmaap/components/message-router/charts/message-router-kafka/templates/statefulset.yaml b/kubernetes/dmaap/components/message-router/charts/message-router-kafka/templates/statefulset.yaml
index bfe4b11..3be8d5d 100644
--- a/kubernetes/dmaap/components/message-router/charts/message-router-kafka/templates/statefulset.yaml
+++ b/kubernetes/dmaap/components/message-router/charts/message-router-kafka/templates/statefulset.yaml
@@ -113,12 +113,14 @@
             port: {{ .Values.service.internalPort }}
           initialDelaySeconds: {{ .Values.liveness.initialDelaySeconds }}
           periodSeconds: {{ .Values.liveness.periodSeconds }}
+          timeoutSeconds: {{ .Values.liveness.timeoutSeconds }}
         {{ end }}
         readinessProbe:
           tcpSocket:
             port: {{ .Values.service.internalPort }}
           initialDelaySeconds: {{ .Values.readiness.initialDelaySeconds }}
           periodSeconds: {{ .Values.readiness.periodSeconds }}
+          timeoutSeconds: {{ .Values.readiness.timeoutSeconds }}
         env:
         - name: HOST_IP
           valueFrom:
diff --git a/kubernetes/dmaap/components/message-router/charts/message-router-kafka/values.yaml b/kubernetes/dmaap/components/message-router/charts/message-router-kafka/values.yaml
index f5a7c7e..873e72e 100644
--- a/kubernetes/dmaap/components/message-router/charts/message-router-kafka/values.yaml
+++ b/kubernetes/dmaap/components/message-router/charts/message-router-kafka/values.yaml
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@
 liveness:
   initialDelaySeconds: 60
   periodSeconds: 10
+  timeoutSeconds: 1
   # necessary to disable liveness probe when setting breakpoints
   # in debugger so K8s doesn't restart unresponsive container
   enabled: true
@@ -78,6 +79,7 @@
 readiness:
   initialDelaySeconds: 60
   periodSeconds: 10
+  timeoutSeconds: 1
 
 ## Persist data to a persitent volume
 persistence:
diff --git a/kubernetes/dmaap/components/message-router/charts/message-router-mirrormaker/templates/deployment.yaml b/kubernetes/dmaap/components/message-router/charts/message-router-mirrormaker/templates/deployment.yaml
index 51c4149..64e5133 100644
--- a/kubernetes/dmaap/components/message-router/charts/message-router-mirrormaker/templates/deployment.yaml
+++ b/kubernetes/dmaap/components/message-router/charts/message-router-mirrormaker/templates/deployment.yaml
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@
             - "rm /tmp/lprobe.txt"
           initialDelaySeconds: {{ .Values.liveness.initialDelaySeconds }}
           periodSeconds: {{ .Values.liveness.periodSeconds }}
+          timeoutSeconds: {{ .Values.liveness.timeoutSeconds }}
         {{ end }}
         readinessProbe:
           exec:
@@ -83,6 +84,7 @@
             - "rm /tmp/rprobe.txt"
           initialDelaySeconds: {{ .Values.readiness.initialDelaySeconds }}
           periodSeconds: {{ .Values.readiness.periodSeconds }}
+          timeoutSeconds: {{ .Values.readiness.timeoutSeconds }}
         env:
         - name: KAFKA_HEAP_OPTS
           value: "{{ .Values.kafkaHeapOptions }}"
diff --git a/kubernetes/dmaap/components/message-router/charts/message-router-mirrormaker/values.yaml b/kubernetes/dmaap/components/message-router/charts/message-router-mirrormaker/values.yaml
index 2f63406..676f634 100644
--- a/kubernetes/dmaap/components/message-router/charts/message-router-mirrormaker/values.yaml
+++ b/kubernetes/dmaap/components/message-router/charts/message-router-mirrormaker/values.yaml
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@
 liveness:
   initialDelaySeconds: 60
   periodSeconds: 20
+  timeoutSeconds: 5
   # necessary to disable liveness probe when setting breakpoints
   # in debugger so K8s doesn't restart unresponsive container
   enabled: true
@@ -63,6 +64,7 @@
 readiness:
   initialDelaySeconds: 60
   periodSeconds: 20
+  timeoutSeconds: 5
 
 
 service:
diff --git a/kubernetes/dmaap/components/message-router/charts/message-router-zookeeper/templates/statefulset.yaml b/kubernetes/dmaap/components/message-router/charts/message-router-zookeeper/templates/statefulset.yaml
index 50b047a..df17ca8 100644
--- a/kubernetes/dmaap/components/message-router/charts/message-router-zookeeper/templates/statefulset.yaml
+++ b/kubernetes/dmaap/components/message-router/charts/message-router-zookeeper/templates/statefulset.yaml
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@
             - "zookeeper-ready.sh 2181"
           initialDelaySeconds: {{ .Values.liveness.initialDelaySeconds }}
           periodSeconds: {{ .Values.liveness.periodSeconds }}
+          timeoutSeconds: {{ .Values.liveness.timeoutSeconds }}
         {{ end }}
         readinessProbe:
           exec:
@@ -95,6 +96,7 @@
             - "zookeeper-ready.sh 2181"
           initialDelaySeconds: {{ .Values.readiness.initialDelaySeconds }}
           periodSeconds: {{ .Values.readiness.periodSeconds }}
+          timeoutSeconds: {{ .Values.readiness.timeoutSeconds }}
         env:
         - name: ZK_REPLICAS
           value: "{{ .Values.replicaCount }}"
diff --git a/kubernetes/dmaap/components/message-router/charts/message-router-zookeeper/values.yaml b/kubernetes/dmaap/components/message-router/charts/message-router-zookeeper/values.yaml
index 734736d..eeb77ba 100644
--- a/kubernetes/dmaap/components/message-router/charts/message-router-zookeeper/values.yaml
+++ b/kubernetes/dmaap/components/message-router/charts/message-router-zookeeper/values.yaml
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@
 liveness:
   initialDelaySeconds: 10
   periodSeconds: 10
+  timeoutSeconds: 1
   # necessary to disable liveness probe when setting breakpoints
   # in debugger so K8s doesn't restart unresponsive container
   enabled: true
@@ -68,6 +69,7 @@
 readiness:
   initialDelaySeconds: 10
   periodSeconds: 10
+  timeoutSeconds: 1
 
 #Zookeeper properties
 zk: