The Readiness probe signals readiness to process the incoming API requests.While it responds successfully, it means that API service is “ready” to receive requests.
The readiness probe replaces the system/ping and gets a simple status response about the state of the Artifactory API services using the new Kubernetes style readiness probe. However system/ping will remain as the legacy artifactory system is still dependent on it .The probe is used to measure the system latency, also it provides customers with a significant metric to monitor and alert according to their own requirements standard.
For example :
To get a readiness probe response about the state of Artifactory use the following command.
curl -u adminuser:Password -XGET http://localhost:8081/artifactory/api/v1/system/readiness -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' Output Response : OK