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Reliability Audit

Identify hidden failure points and production risks before they impact your business.

What is a Reliability Audit?

A comprehensive assessment of your system's reliability posture. We evaluate your architecture, deployment processes, monitoring, and incident response to identify critical failure points and operational gaps that could lead to production incidents.

Unlike generic security audits, we focus specifically on operational reliability — the ability of your system to consistently deliver value to customers without unplanned downtime.

What We Evaluate

Architecture

Single points of failure, cascading failure modes, capacity planning, and database reliability.

Deployment Process

CI/CD pipeline, testing coverage, rollback procedures, and deployment frequency safety.

Monitoring & Observability

Alerting effectiveness, metric coverage, logging completeness, and distributed tracing.

Incident Response

On-call processes, runbook quality, incident communication, and post-incident practices.

Audit Deliverables

  • Risk Inventory: Detailed catalog of identified reliability risks
  • Priority Roadmap: Sequenced improvements with impact/effort analysis
  • Implementation Guidance: Specific steps for each recommendation
  • Metrics Framework: KPIs to track reliability improvements
  • Team Workshop: Present findings and roadmap to your engineering team

Timeline

A typical reliability audit takes 2-3 weeks:

Week 1
Initial interviews, architecture deep-dive, and codebase review
Week 2
Incident analysis, deployment process review, and monitoring assessment
Week 3
Report finalization, team workshop, and roadmap discussion

At a Glance

Duration
2-3 weeks
Team Time Required
5-10 hours
Typical Team Size
5-50 engineers
Best For
Series A-C funded

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Next Steps

After the audit, we typically recommend: