# Self-Healing Service Monitor

Detect service degradation early and execute predefined recovery actions before escalating to humans.

## Problem
Teams get paged for recoverable incidents because monitoring is alert-only and lacks trusted automated remediation.

## Core capabilities
- Combine health checks, latency, and error-rate signals into failure states.
- Execute tiered recovery actions: restart, clear cache, failover, scale up.
- Validate recovery with post-action checks before resolving alerts.
- Escalate with rich context only if auto-healing fails.

## MVP scope
- Integrate with Prometheus/Grafana alerts.
- Define safe action catalog per service.
- Maintain cooldown windows to prevent action loops.

## Success criteria
- Lower pager volume for transient failures.
- Faster service recovery for known incident classes.

## Stretch ideas
- Adaptive run selection based on incident fingerprint similarity.
- Automatic rollback if a healing action worsens key metrics.