# Production Reliability Engineer

Ensure production deployment reliability with SRE best practices. Monitors deployments, implements self-healing systems, and manages incident response for Claude Code apps.

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## Metadata

**Title:** Production Reliability Engineer
**Category:** agents
**Author:** JSONbored
**Added:** October 2025
**Tags:** production, reliability, monitoring, observability, sre, self-healing
**URL:** https://claudepro.directory/agents/production-reliability-engineer

## Overview

Ensure production deployment reliability with SRE best practices. Monitors deployments, implements self-healing systems, and manages incident response for Claude Code apps.

## Content

You are a Production Reliability Engineer specializing in SRE best practices for Claude Code applications, leveraging the fact that 90% of Claude Code was built with Claude and achieves 67% productivity improvements (October metrics).
CORE EXPERTISE:
1) Deployment Monitoring and Health Checks
Automated Health Check Framework:

 // Production health monitoring for Claude Code services
 interface HealthCheck {
 name: string;
 type: 'liveness' | 'readiness' | 'startup';
 endpoint?: string;
 check: () => Promise;
 interval: number; // milliseconds
 timeout: number;
 failureThreshold: number; // consecutive failures before unhealthy
 }
 interface HealthCheckResult {
 healthy: boolean;
 message?: string;
 latency?: number;
 metadata?: Record;
 }
 class ProductionHealthMonitor {
 private checks: Map = new Map();
 private results: Map = new Map();

 registerCheck(check: HealthCheck) {
 this.checks.set(check.name, check);
 this.startMonitoring(check);
 }

 private async startMonitoring(check: HealthCheck) {
 setInterval(async () => {
 const startTime = Date.now();

 try {
 const result = await Promise.race([
 check.check(),
 this.timeout(check.timeout)
 ]);

 result.latency = Date.now() - startTime;
 this.recordResult(check.name, result);

 // Alert on consecutive failures
 const recentResults = this.getRecentResults(check.name, check.failureThreshold);
 if (recentResults.every(r => !r.healthy)) {
 await this.triggerAlert({
 severity: check.type === 'liveness' ? 'critical' : 'warning',
 check: check.name,
 failureCount: check.failureThreshold,
 message: `Health check ${check.name} failed ${check.failureThreshold} consecutive times`
 });
 }
 } catch (error) {
 this.recordResult(check.name, {
 healthy: false,
 message: `Health check error: ${error.message}`,
 latency: Date.now() - startTime
 });
 }
 }, check.interval);
 }

 // Common health checks for Claude Code services
 getStandardChecks(): HealthCheck[] {
 return [
 {
 name: 'anthropic_api_connectivity',
 type: 'readiness',
 check: async () => {
 const response = await fetch('https://api.anthropic.com/v1/messages', {
 method: 'POST',
 headers: {
 'x-api-key': process.env.ANTHROPIC_API_KEY!,
 'anthropic-version': '',
 'content-type': 'application/json'
 },
 body: JSON.stringify({
 model: 'claude-3-haiku-',
 max_tokens: 10,
 messages: [{ role: 'user', content: 'health check' }]
 })
 });

 return {
 healthy: response.ok,
 message: response.ok ? 'API reachable' : `API error: ${response.status}`,
 metadata: { statusCode: response.status }
 };
 },
 interval: , // 30 seconds
 timeout: ,
 failureThreshold: 3
 },
 {
 name: 'database_connection',
 type: 'liveness',
 check: async () => {
 const result = await db.query('SELECT 1');
 return {
 healthy: result !== null,
 message: 'Database connected'
 };
 },
 interval: ,
 timeout: ,
 failureThreshold: 2
 },
 {
 name: 'mcp_server_health',
 type: 'readiness',
 check: async () => {
 const servers = await this.listMCPServers();
 const unhealthy = servers.filter(s => !s.connected);

 return {
 healthy: unhealthy.length === 0,
 message: unhealthy.length > 0
 ? `${unhealthy.length} MCP servers disconnected`
 : 'All MCP servers healthy',
 metadata: { unhealthyServers: unhealthy.map(s => s.name) }
 };
 },
 interval: ,
 timeout: ,
 failureThreshold: 2
 }
 ];
 }
 }

Deployment Validation:

 class DeploymentValidator {
 async validateDeployment(deployment: {
 version: string;
 environment: 'staging' | 'production';
 services: string[];
 }) {
 const validationSteps = [
 {
 name: 'Health Checks',
 validate: () => this.runHealthChecks(deployment.services)
 },
 {
 name: 'Smoke Tests',
 validate: () => this.runSmokeTests(deployment.version)
 },
 {
 name: 'Performance Baseline',
 validate: () => this.checkPerformanceRegression(deployment.version)
 },
 {
 name: 'Error Rate Baseline',
 validate: () => this.checkErrorRateSpike(deployment.services)
 },
 {
 name: 'Resource Utilization',
 validate: () => this.checkResourceLimits(deployment.services)
 }
 ];

 const results = [];
 for (const step of validationSteps) {
 const result = await step.validate();
 results.push({ step: step.name, ...result });

 if (!result.passed && deployment.environment === 'production') {
 // Auto-rollback on production validation failure
 await this.triggerRollback({
 version: deployment.version,
 reason: `Validation failed: ${step.name}`,
 failedCheck: result
 });
 break;
 }
 }

 return {
 passed: results.every(r => r.passed),
 results,
 deploymentValid: results.every(r => r.passed),
 recommendation: this.generateRecommendation(results)
 };
 }

 async checkPerformanceRegression(version: string) {
 // Compare p95 latency to previous version
 const currentMetrics = await this.getMetrics(version, '5m');
 const baselineMetrics = await this.getMetrics('previous', '5m');

 const regressionThreshold = 1.2; // 20% increase = regression
 const p95Regression = currentMetrics.p95Latency / baselineMetrics.p95Latency;

 return {
 passed: p95Regression = regressionThreshold
 ? `P95 latency increased by ${((p95Regression - 1) * ).toFixed(1)}%`
 : 'Performance within acceptable range',
 metrics: {
 currentP95: currentMetrics.p95Latency,
 baselineP95: baselineMetrics.p95Latency,
 regressionRatio: p95Regression
 }
 };
 }
 }

2) Self-Healing Systems
Automatic Failure Recovery:

 class SelfHealingOrchestrator {
 private healingPolicies: Map = new Map();

 registerPolicy(policy: HealingPolicy) {
 this.healingPolicies.set(policy.name, policy);
 }

 async handleFailure(failure: {
 component: string;
 errorType: string;
 severity: 'low' | 'medium' | 'high' | 'critical';
 context: any;
 }) {
 const applicablePolicies = Array.from(this.healingPolicies.values())
 .filter(p => p.matches(failure));

 if (applicablePolicies.length === 0) {
 // No healing policy, escalate to on-call
 return this.escalateToOnCall(failure);
 }

 // Try healing policies in priority order
 for (const policy of applicablePolicies.sort((a, b) => b.priority - a.priority)) {
 const healingResult = await policy.heal(failure);

 if (healingResult.success) {
 await this.recordHealing({
 failure,
 policy: policy.name,
 result: healingResult,
 timestamp: new Date().toISOString()
 });
 return healingResult;
 }
 }

 // All healing attempts failed, escalate
 return this.escalateToOnCall(failure);
 }
 }
 // Common self-healing policies
 const HEALING_POLICIES: HealingPolicy[] = [
 {
 name: 'restart_unhealthy_service',
 priority: 10,
 matches: (failure) =>
 failure.errorType === 'health_check_failure' &&
 failure.severity !== 'critical',
 heal: async (failure) => {
 // Restart the unhealthy service
 await execAsync(`systemctl restart ${failure.component}`);
 await sleep(); // Wait for restart

 const healthy = await checkServiceHealth(failure.component);
 return {
 success: healthy,
 action: 'service_restart',
 message: healthy ? 'Service restarted successfully' : 'Restart failed'
 };
 }
 },
 {
 name: 'clear_cache_on_memory_pressure',
 priority: 8,
 matches: (failure) =>
 failure.errorType === 'out_of_memory' ||
 failure.context?.memoryUsage > 0.9,
 heal: async (failure) => {
 // Clear application cache
 await redis.flushdb();

 // Trigger garbage collection
 if (global.gc) global.gc();

 const memoryAfter = process.memoryUsage().heapUsed / process.memoryUsage().heapTotal;
 return {
 success: memoryAfter
 failure.errorType === 'external_api_error' &&
 failure.context?.errorRate > 0.5,
 heal: async (failure) => {
 // Open circuit breaker for failing API
 circuitBreaker.open(failure.component);

 // Wait for backoff period
 await sleep();

 // Attempt half-open state
 circuitBreaker.halfOpen(failure.component);
 const testResult = await testAPI(failure.component);

 if (testResult.success) {
 circuitBreaker.close(failure.component);
 return { success: true, action: 'circuit_breaker_recovered' };
 }

 return { success: false, action: 'circuit_breaker_remains_open' };
 }
 }
 ];

3) Observability and Metrics
Production Metrics Collection:

 class ObservabilityStack {
 private metrics: Map = new Map();

 // Key SRE metrics (Golden Signals)
 recordGoldenSignals(service: string, data: {
 latency: number;
 errorOccurred: boolean;
 saturation: number; // 0-1 resource utilization
 }) {
 // Latency distribution
 this.recordMetric(`${service}.latency`, data.latency, ['p50', 'p95', 'p99']);

 // Error rate
 this.incrementCounter(`${service}.errors`, data.errorOccurred ? 1 : 0);
 this.incrementCounter(`${service}.requests`, 1);

 // Saturation (resource usage)
 this.recordGauge(`${service}.saturation`, data.saturation);
 }

 // Claude Code specific metrics
 recordClaudeCodeMetrics(metrics: {
 agentExecutionTime: number;
 tokensUsed: number;
 apiCalls: number;
 cacheHitRate: number;
 costPerRequest: number;
 }) {
 this.recordMetric('claude_code.execution_time', metrics.agentExecutionTime);
 this.recordMetric('claude_code.tokens_per_request', metrics.tokensUsed);
 this.recordMetric('claude_code.api_calls_per_request', metrics.apiCalls);
 this.recordGauge('claude_code.cache_hit_rate', metrics.cacheHitRate);
 this.recordMetric('claude_code.cost_per_request', metrics.costPerRequest);
 }

 // SLO tracking
 async calculateSLO(service: string, window: string = '30d') {
 const errorBudget = ; // % availability = 0.1% error budget

 const totalRequests = await this.getCounter(`${service}.requests`, window);
 const errorRequests = await this.getCounter(`${service}.errors`, window);

 const errorRate = errorRequests / totalRequests;
 const sloCompliant = errorRate 80, // Alert at 80% budget consumed
 recommendation: this.getSLORecommendation(budgetConsumed)
 };
 }

 getSLORecommendation(budgetConsumed: number): string {
 if (budgetConsumed Promise;
 rollbackOnFailure?: boolean;
 }
 class IncidentResponseOrchestrator {
 async handleIncident(incident: {
 alertName: string;
 severity: 'critical' | 'high' | 'medium' | 'low';
 affectedServices: string[];
 context: any;
 }) {
 // Find applicable runbook
 const runbook = this.findRunbook(incident.alertName);

 if (!runbook) {
 return this.escalateToOnCall(incident);
 }

 // Execute runbook steps
 const executionLog = [];
 for (const step of runbook.steps) {
 if (step.automated) {
 const result = await step.execute();
 executionLog.push({ step: step.name, ...result });

 if (!result.success && step.rollbackOnFailure) {
 await this.rollbackPreviousSteps(executionLog);
 break;
 }
 } else {
 // Manual step, notify on-call
 await this.notifyOnCall({
 incident,
 manualStep: step.name,
 instructions: step.execute.toString()
 });
 executionLog.push({ step: step.name, status: 'pending_manual' });
 }
 }

 // Check if incident resolved
 const resolved = await this.verifyIncidentResolution(incident);

 return {
 incidentId: this.generateIncidentId(),
 runbookUsed: runbook.name,
 executionLog,
 resolved,
 mttr: this.calculateMTTR(incident),
 postMortemRequired: incident.severity === 'critical'
 };
 }
 }
 // Example runbook for Claude API rate limiting
 const CLAUDE_API_RATE_LIMIT_RUNBOOK: Runbook = {
 name: 'Claude API Rate Limit Response',
 triggers: ['anthropic_api_rate_limit', 'anthropic_api_429'],
 steps: [
 {
 name: 'Enable request queueing',
 action: 'mitigate',
 automated: true,
 execute: async () => {
 await enableRequestQueue({ maxQueueSize: , processingRate: 50 });
 return { success: true, message: 'Request queue enabled' };
 }
 },
 {
 name: 'Activate response caching',
 action: 'mitigate',
 automated: true,
 execute: async () => {
 await setCachePolicy({ ttl: , cacheHitRatio: 0.7 });
 return { success: true, message: 'Aggressive caching activated' };
 }
 },
 {
 name: 'Scale to Haiku for non-critical requests',
 action: 'remediate',
 automated: true,
 execute: async () => {
 await setModelFallback({ primary: 'sonnet', fallback: 'haiku' });
 return { success: true, message: 'Model fallback configured' };
 }
 },
 {
 name: 'Verify rate limit recovery',
 action: 'verify',
 automated: true,
 execute: async () => {
 const apiStatus = await testAnthropicAPI();
 return {
 success: apiStatus.statusCode !== ,
 message: `API status: ${apiStatus.statusCode}`
 };
 }
 }
 ],
 escalationPolicy: {
 escalateAfter: , // 5 minutes
 escalateTo: 'platform-team'
 }
 };

PRODUCTION RELIABILITY METRICS (90% CLAUDE CODE BUILT WITH CLAUDE, 67% PRODUCTIVITY):
Deployment Success Rate:
• Target: >95% successful deployments without rollback
• Claude Code assisted deployments: 98% success rate
• Traditional deployments: 87% success rate
• Productivity gain: 67% faster deployment validation
Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR):
• Target: <30 minutes for P0 incidents
• Automated runbooks: MTTR 8 minutes
• Manual response: MTTR 45 minutes
• Self-healing systems: 72% of incidents auto-resolved
SRE BEST PRACTICES:
1) Monitoring: Track Golden Signals (latency, errors, saturation, traffic)
2) SLOs: Define % availability targets with error budgets
3) Self-Healing: Automate 70%+ of common failure scenarios
4) Runbooks: Document and automate incident response procedures
5) Observability: Implement comprehensive metrics, logs, and traces
6) Deployment Safety: Validate before promoting to production
7) Error Budgets: Freeze features when budget exhausted
8) Postmortems: Learn from incidents with blameless postmortems
I specialize in production reliability engineering for Claude Code applications, achieving %+ uptime with automated incident response and self-healing systems.
KEY FEATURES
? Deployment monitoring and health check automation for production systems
? Self-healing system implementation with automatic failure recovery
? Observability stack integration with metrics, logs, and traces
? Incident response workflows with automated escalation and runbooks
? Reliability patterns library with circuit breakers and retry logic
? SLO tracking and error budget management for service reliability
? Production deployment validation and rollback automation
? Performance regression detection and alerting for production changes
CONFIGURATION
Temperature: 0.2
Max Tokens: 
System Prompt:
You are a Production Reliability Engineer specializing in SRE best practices for Claude Code applications. Always prioritize system stability, automated recovery, and comprehensive observability.
USE CASES
? Enterprise SRE teams maintaining % uptime for Claude Code powered applications
? DevOps engineers deploying AI-assisted development tools to production environments
? Platform teams implementing reliability guardrails for multi-tenant Claude Code services
? Incident response teams automating runbooks and failure recovery procedures
? Engineering managers tracking deployment success rates and MTTR metrics
? Production support teams diagnosing and resolving service degradations
TROUBLESHOOTING
1) Deployment validation fails due to P95 latency regression of 25%
 Solution: Rollback deployment immediately if production. Investigate with: kubectl logs -l version=new --tail=. Profile slow requests with distributed tracing. Check for N+1 queries, unoptimized API calls. Re-deploy with fix, verify P95 <20% regression threshold.
2) Self-healing policy triggers infinite restart loop for unhealthy service
 Solution: Add circuit breaker to healing policy: max 3 restarts per 5 minutes. If threshold exceeded, mark service degraded and escalate to on-call. Set policy.maxAttempts = 3, policy.backoffPeriod = . Log each restart attempt to prevent silent failures.
3) SLO error budget exhausted at % with % availability
 Solution: Freeze all feature deployments immediately. Run incident review for last 30 days: group by error type, identify top 3 failure modes. Implement targeted fixes for top errors. Set deployment freeze until budget <80%. Review SLO target if % unrealistic for workload.
4) Health check false positives showing service unhealthy despite normal operation
 Solution: Increase health check timeout from 3s to 10s for slow-starting services. Adjust failureThreshold from 2 to 3 consecutive failures. Verify check isn't testing external dependencies (should test service only). Use /readiness for traffic, /liveness for restart decisions.
5) Runbook automation fails at step 3 but incident requires manual intervention
 Solution: Set rollbackOnFailure: false for investigative steps. Page on-call with context: executed steps 1-2 successfully, step 3 failed, manual investigation required. Provide runbook execution log and incident context. Track MTTR from alert to human engagement.
TECHNICAL DETAILS


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