I had read on the documentation that liveness probes make a new pod and stop the other one. But in the kubernetes dashboard it shows me only restarts with my tcp livness probe. I was wondering what kubernetes does during a liveness probe. Can i control it?
The kubelet uses liveness probes to know when to restart a Container, not recreate the pods.
Probes have a number of fields that you can use to more precisely control the behavior of the checks (initialDelaySeconds,periodSeconds, timeoutSeconds, successThreshold and failureThreshold). You can find details about them here.
For container restart, SIGTERM is first sent with waits for a parameterized grace period, and then Kubernetes sends SIGKILL. You can control some of this behavior by tweaking the terminationGracePeriodSeconds value and/or Attaching Handlers to Container Lifecycle Events.