My ingress controller in GCP is taking more than 5 minutes for its backends to from status "unknown" to "HEALTHY", despite the fact that the pod for it has been running for almost an hour and is healthy.

Not sure what to do here. Is there a way to make this faster?

Every 2.0s: kubectl describe ing                                                                          Jorges-MacBook-Pro.local: Tue Jul 30 14:59:43 2019

Name:             leadgenie-django-ingress-gce
Namespace:        default
Address:          34.98.95.64
Default backend:  default-http-backend:80 (10.0.2.11:8080)
TLS:
  tls-leadgenie terminates staging-app.leadgenie.ai
Rules:
  Host                      Path  Backends
  ----                      ----  --------
  staging-app.leadgenie.ai
                            /    leadgenie-django-service:80 (<none>)
                            /*   leadgenie-django-service:80 (<none>)
Annotations:
  ingress.kubernetes.io/forwarding-rule:             k8s-fw-default-leadgenie-django-ingress-gce--1c2d0d85b16beb9a
  ingress.kubernetes.io/https-forwarding-rule:       k8s-fws-default-leadgenie-django-ingress-gce--1c2d0d85b16beb9a
  ingress.kubernetes.io/https-target-proxy:          k8s-tps-default-leadgenie-django-ingress-gce--1c2d0d85b16beb9a
  ingress.kubernetes.io/url-map:                     k8s-um-default-leadgenie-django-ingress-gce--1c2d0d85b16beb9a
  kubectl.kubernetes.io/last-applied-configuration:  {"apiVersion":"extensions/v1beta1","kind":"Ingress","metadata":{"annotations":{"kubernetes.io/ingress.c
lass":"gce","kubernetes.io/ingress.global-static-ip-name":"leadgenie-staging"},"name":"leadgenie-django-ingress-gce","namespace":"default"},"spec":{"rules":
[{"host":"staging-app.leadgenie.ai","http":{"paths":[{"backend":{"serviceName":"leadgenie-django-service","servicePort":80},"path":"/"},{"backend":{"service
Name":"leadgenie-django-service","servicePort":80},"path":"/*"}]}}],"tls":[{"hosts":["staging-app.leadgenie.ai"],"secretName":"tls-leadgenie"}]}}

  ingress.kubernetes.io/backends:               {"k8s-be-30886--1c2d0d85b16beb9a":"Unknown","k8s-be-31152--1c2d0d85b16beb9a":"Unknown"}
  ingress.kubernetes.io/target-proxy:           k8s-tp-default-leadgenie-django-ingress-gce--1c2d0d85b16beb9a
  kubernetes.io/ingress.class:                  gce
  kubernetes.io/ingress.global-static-ip-name:  leadgenie-staging
  ingress.kubernetes.io/ssl-cert:               k8s-ssl-50ffff0cd920c11b-6cc9f460acef62eb--1c2d0d85b16beb9a
Events:
  Type    Reason  Age    From                     Message
  ----    ------  ----   ----                     -------
  Normal  ADD     6m13s  loadbalancer-controller  default/leadgenie-django-ingress-gce
  Normal  CREATE  5m11s  loadbalancer-controller  ip: 34.98.95.64