When something goes wrong at 3am, your best engineers aren't available. HealthChecker captures their troubleshooting expertise, runs hundreds of diagnostic checks instantly, and pinpoints issues before they become outages. No more tribal knowledge locked in people's heads.
Why HealthChecker
Codify Knowledge
Capture troubleshooting expertise so it's not locked in engineers' heads
Instant Results
Run hundreds of checks in seconds, not the hours manual triaging takes
Eliminate Errors
No human error during stressful 3am incidents
Reduce Downtime
Faster diagnosis means faster resolution and less revenue loss
The Problem
When systems fail, experienced engineers know exactly what to check. They've seen these problems before. But that knowledge lives only in their heads.
- Knowledge silos: Only a few people know how to diagnose complex issues
- Slow response: Manual triaging takes time you don't have during outages
- Human error: Tired engineers at 3am miss things or check the wrong things
- Intermittent issues: Problems that happen occasionally are hard to catch
- Onboarding gap: New team members take months to learn troubleshooting
How It Works
Automate the triaging process your best engineers perform
Define Health Checks
Codify the diagnostic steps your experienced engineers perform. Each check captures specific knowledge about what to look for, what's normal, and what indicates a problem.
Run On-Demand or Continuously
Execute all checks instantly when an issue occurs, or run them continuously to catch intermittent problems that only surface occasionally.
Immediate Visibility
See at a glance which checks are passing and which are failing. No digging through logs or running manual commands. The problem is surfaced instantly.
Take Action
With the issue identified, your team can focus on resolution rather than diagnosis. Reduce mean time to recovery significantly.
Built-in & Custom Checks
Get started immediately with pre-built checks for common infrastructure, then easily add checks for your custom software.
- Kafka: Broker health, consumer lag, partition balance, replication status
- PostgreSQL: Connection pools, replication lag, lock contention, query performance
- More built-in: New components added regularly
- Custom checks: Add health checks for your own applications with minimal effort
- Extensible: Simple framework to add new check types
Use Cases
Incident Response
When the pager goes off at 3am, run all checks instantly. Know exactly what's wrong without waiting for your senior engineer to wake up.
Continuous Monitoring
Run checks continuously to catch intermittent issues that only occur occasionally. Surface problems before they cause outages.
Knowledge Transfer
New team members can run the same checks as veterans. Troubleshooting expertise is preserved even when people leave.
"The best time to document how to diagnose a problem is right after you've solved it. HealthChecker makes that documentation executable."
Ready to codify your engineering expertise?
Let's discuss how HealthChecker can reduce your downtime.
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