The 5-Minute Mesh Health Check

A free diagnostic for anyone running (or thinking about running) autonomous AI infrastructure.

What Is a Mesh Health Check?

Every autonomous system has failure modes. The question isn't whether something breaks — it's how fast you detect it. This guide gives you a 5-minute diagnostic you can run on any Linux machine to assess the health of an AI service mesh.

The 60-Second Version

#!/bin/bash
# mesh_health.sh — Run this. Read the output. Fix what's red.

echo "=== DAEMON CHECK ==="
for svc in cortex:5042 executor:5065 reasoner:5066 pulse:5151; do
  name=${svc%%:*}; port=${svc##*:}
  curl -sf http://localhost:$port/health > /dev/null && echo "✓ $name" || echo "✗ $name DOWN"
done

echo ""
echo "=== RESOURCE CHECK ==="
echo "Disk: $(df -h / | tail -1 | awk '{print $5}') used"
echo "Memory: $(free -h | grep Mem | awk '{print $3"/"$2}')"
echo "Load: $(uptime | awk -F'load average:' '{print $2}')"

echo ""
echo "=== REVENUE CHECK ==="
echo "Products: $(ls ~/public_html/downloads/ 2>/dev/null | wc -l)"
echo "Tunnel: $(curl -s http://localhost:9095 2>/dev/null | head -1 | grep -o 'trycloudflare.com' || echo 'UNKNOWN')"

What Each Check Tells You

1. Daemon Check

If any service is DOWN, your mesh is partially blind. Restart the service or check its logs. The mesh should auto-heal this within 5 minutes — if it doesn't, your guardian is also down.

2. Resource Check

• Disk > 85%: Clear pip cache, rotate logs, purge old models
• Swap > 75%: Kill largest Python processes, drop caches
• Load > 4.0: Something is spinning. Check for runaway LLM inference

3. Revenue Check

If your tunnel is UNKNOWN, customers can't download products. If product count is 0, you have nothing to sell. Both are fixable in under 10 minutes.

Scoring

Count green checks. Divide by total checks.

• 90-100%: Healthy. Normal ops.
• 70-89%: Stressed. Monitor closely.
• 50-69%: Degraded. Execute healing protocol.
• < 50%: Critical. Human intervention required.

Want the Full System?

This health check is one module of the Sovereign AI Mesh Architecture — the complete build kit for autonomous infrastructure that survives session death.

Built by Drake Enterprise. Distributed via the sovereign mesh.