# kuberhealthy/kuberhealthy

A Kubernetes operator for running synthetic checks as pods. Works great with Prometheus!

Repository: https://github.com/kuberhealthy/kuberhealthy
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/kuberhealthy
Homepage: https://kuberhealthy.github.io/kuberhealthy/
Language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: kubernetes, health, monitoring, synthetic, cicd, continuous-delivery, continuous-integration, continuous-testing, operator
Last push: 2026-08-26T01:54:10+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 99/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 99, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2997, "days_push": 8, "days_rel": 8, "gap_med": 2.5, "n_releases_24m": 15}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2264, forks 293 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:32.579361+00:00)

## What it is
Kuberhealthy is a Kubernetes operator that runs synthetic monitoring checks as short-lived pods, defined via HealthCheck custom resources. It reports check results through a status UI, JSON API, and Prometheus metrics endpoint.

## Use cases
- continuously verify my kubernetes cluster is healthy
- run synthetic user workflow tests inside kubernetes
- export synthetic check results to prometheus
- monitor application endpoints from inside the cluster
- package health checks as kubernetes manifests
- alert when cluster functionality breaks

## When to choose
- you run workloads on Kubernetes and want continuous validation
- you want synthetic checks as code via CRDs and Helm
- you already use Prometheus for metrics and alerting

## When to avoid
- you need external black-box monitoring from outside the cluster
- you are not running Kubernetes
- you need full APM or log aggregation rather than health checks

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: active
- function: monitoring, alerting, testing, ci-cd, deployment
- domain: monitoring, cloud-computing, self-hosted
- platform: self-hosted, cloud, go
- tags: synthetic-monitoring, kubernetes-operator, prometheus, health-checks, continuous-validation, crd, helm, devops, containers, kubernetes, docker

## Member repositories
- kuberhealthy/kuberhealthy (main) score 99

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:32.579361+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:42:26.944729+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/kuberhealthy/kuberhealthy (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:32.579361+00:00, sha d271a85684cb)
  - homepage: https://kuberhealthy.github.io/kuberhealthy/ (fetched 2026-08-29T10:22:47.060858+00:00, sha 5b5182bcd8b8)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.