# Health Checks and Graceful Degradation in Distributed Systems

<https://medium.com/@copyconstruct/health-checks-in-distributed-systems-aa8a0e8c1672>

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## What Jamie wrote

I have been running health checks for decades. BigCharts [server is happy](http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/up2.aspx) is the first. MarketWatch [is also happy](https://www.marketwatch.com/up2.aspx). 

> The “health” of a process is a spectrum. What we’re really interested in is the quality-of-service — such as how long it takes for a process to return the result of a given unit of work and the accuracy of the result.

Getting more precise with checks, not simple up and down, is definitely a good improvement.

## Facts

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- [WT67: Weekly Thing #67 / Aug 18, 2018](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/67/), Notable Links 📌

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