# Auto-Remediation

> The ability to run a guarded, automated response, such as a restart, a reset and replay or a compaction, when an alert or a health signal shows a failure whose fix is known.

Record: `architecture:auto-remediation`
Kind: capability
Layer: [Correctness Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/correctness-core.md)
Severity: contextual
Scope: runtime, service, infrastructure
Aliases: Autonomous Recovery
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology#architecture-auto-remediation

Listed in [Architecture principles](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/architecture.md), after [Auto-Scaling](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/auto-scaling.md) and before [Rollback](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/rollback.md).

## Repair

- Refactored by: Automate Runbook, Add Guardrails
- Detected by: repeated manual runbook actions
- Violated by: repeatable failure with no automated response
- Measured by: remediation success, false action rate
- Enforced by: operations policy

## Requires

- [Health Signal](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/health-signal.md)
- [Remediation Workflow](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/remediation-workflow.md)

## Reinforces

- [Self-Healing Architecture](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/self-healing-architecture.md)

## Enables

- [Incident Reduction](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/incident-reduction.md)
- [Reduced Mean Time to Recovery](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/reduced-mean-time-to-recovery.md)

## Conflicts with

- [Manual Runbook Dependency](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/manual-runbook-dependency.md)

## In tension with

- [Unsafe Automation](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/unsafe-automation.md)
- [Manual Remediation](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/manual-remediation.md)

## Tensions

- [Auto-Remediation / Unsafe Automation](https://banes-lab.com/records/tension/auto-remediation-unsafe-automation.md)
- [Auto-Remediation / Manual Remediation](https://banes-lab.com/records/tension/auto-remediation-manual-remediation.md)

## Severity

- [contextual](https://banes-lab.com/records/vocabulary/severity-contextual.md)

## Category

- [Self-Healing / Recovery / Deployment Safety](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture-category/self-healing-recovery-deployment-safety.md)

## Linked from

- [Detect, log, fix](https://banes-lab.com/disciplined-methodology/build/detect-log-fix.md)
- [The honest gaps](https://banes-lab.com/software-architecture/coverage/the-honest-gaps.md)
- [The author is probabilistic](https://banes-lab.com/software-architecture/scale/the-author-is-probabilistic.md)
- [Scale follows determinism](https://banes-lab.com/software-architecture/scale/scale-follows-determinism.md)
- [Anti-patterns](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-anti-patterns.md)
- [Self-Healing / Recovery / Deployment Safety](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-self-healing-recovery-deployment-safety.md)
- [Self-Healing / Recovery / Deployment Safety](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon/lexicon-category-self-healing-recovery-deployment-safety.md)
- [Severity levels](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-vocabulary-severity.md)
- [The resolutions](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-resolutions.md)