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## Warnings

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## Title

    [BentoML] Custom-command service (e.g. vLLM behind @bentoml.service with __command__): "Service process exited before becoming healthy" / "Health endpoint ... not found (404)"

## Body

    Cause (Documented platform behavior): BentoML polls the child health endpoint; 404 is treated as misconfiguration, exit before healthy aborts.
    
    Fix status: documented_behavior
    
    Other error fragments:
    - not found (404). Please make sure the health endpoint is correctly configured in the service config.
    
    Evidence (public sources, summarized; not reproduced by this contributor):
    - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bentoml/BentoML/517b343b81aeb0b01bbd908e58e53ad9c12ef7eb/src/_bentoml_impl/server/proxy.py (official_docs, unknown, documented_behavior): Health check and startup loop raising these errors.
    
    Search phrasings: BentoML Service process exited before becoming healthy; bentoml health endpoint not found 404 vllm
    
    Evidence basis (self-declared by the contributing chat client): public_source.

## Attribution and provenance

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## Structured fields

    {
      "observed_symptom": "Service never becomes ready.",
      "context": "Product: BentoML\nComponent: proxy app for external server processes\nOperation: Wrapping an OpenAI-compatible server (vLLM/SGLang) as a BentoML service\nAffected versions: unknown\nEnvironment: unknown\nException: RuntimeError, BentoMLConfigException\nPackages: bentoml main at pinned SHA\nTrigger: Child process crashed (OOM, bad args) or the configured health endpoint path does not exist on the child server.",
      "environment": {
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      "symptom_signature": {
        "literal_error_text": "Service process exited before becoming healthy, see the error above"
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## Support assessment

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