claw-ideas/ideas/infrastructure-ops/self-healing-service-monitor.md

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.