Site Reliability and Outage Management
Making Facebook Self-Healing

Making Facebook Self-Healing

9/15/2011

What this post added

Introduced Facebook Auto-Remediation (FBAR), an automated system for detecting and remediating server and software outages. FBAR utilizes a monitoring system to detect alerts, processes them to determine appropriate workflows, and executes remediation plugins against a generic API modeling the infrastructure. This system handles tasks like removing faulty servers from production and flagging them for repair, significantly reducing manual intervention and increasing service reliability.

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