Re: manual health checks - I worked in an automobile factory in the mid-2000's. When I started, the healthcheck was a checklist on a website. Some of the items

Re: manual health checks - I worked in an automobile factory in the mid-2000's. When I started, the healthcheck was a checklist on a website. Some of the items were grouped on websites or application pages, but many of them were spread out. A year before I started, there wasn't even a checklist on a webpage. After a while, I started scripting as much of the checklist as I could. My point of view being: my job is to improve the tools needed to do my job. I thought that the apps should be able to quickly and easily provide their statuses. What I wanted was something like spring boot's /health endpoint(s). I don't know if I would ever have invented a health endpoint, but once I found out about it, it's obvious. --- This wasn't my only job in the plant, I did quite a bit more: desktop support, application support, hosting, app scripting, plant floor support, internet of manufacturing things (PLC support). Anyway, that job is gone now. Some of it is spread to other teams and ticket queues, but some of it is just gone. Part of that is politics, part is bullshit, part is misemployment, a large part was contract structure.