Self-Healing Infrastructure
Self-healing infrastructure automatically detects and recovers from certain failures without anyone having to step in. If a server crashes, the system notices and replaces it on its own.
This keeps your service running smoothly through the kind of routine hardware and software hiccups that are inevitable at scale.
How It Works
- The system continuously checks the health of each component.
- An unhealthy instance is automatically detected.
- A fresh, healthy replacement is started in its place.
- Traffic is routed away from the failed instance.
The Value for Your Business
Many failures are resolved automatically before they ever become an outage, often within seconds and outside business hours. This improves reliability and reduces the need for someone to be woken up for routine problems, reserving human attention for genuinely novel issues.
It is worth being clear about the limits: self-healing handles the failures we can anticipate and recover from automatically. It works alongside monitoring and on-call cover, which remain in place for anything unusual that needs human judgement.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does self-healing replace monitoring?
No. It handles known, recoverable failures automatically, while monitoring still alerts us to anything unusual that needs a person.
If you need a hand with any of this, your Progressive Robot delivery team is ready to help. Raise a ticket from the Support area of your client portal or speak to your account manager and we will guide you through the next steps.