A shared circuit breaker and reliability control plane for distributed systems
Tripswitch is a developer-facing service that evaluates real-time metrics, tracks breaker state, and makes reliability visible across services, jobs, and languages.
Instead of burying circuit breakers inside application code, Tripswitch gives your whole system a single, shared understanding of what is healthy and what is not.
Tripswitch accepts metrics and events over an API, evaluates them against breaker rules, and exposes the resulting breaker state and history in real time.
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Circuit breakers are supposed to protect systems from cascading failure. In practice, they end up duplicated across services and invisible when something goes wrong.
One service thinks an API is down. Another thinks it is fine. A job runner keeps retrying. A web app keeps serving traffic.
Tripswitch exists to give distributed systems a shared understanding of health.
Instead of every service running its own private breaker, Tripswitch lets all of your services report metrics into a single reliability control plane. That plane evaluates those signals, tracks state over time, and exposes clear, auditable breaker decisions that every consumer can see.
You still decide how your code reacts. Tripswitch decides what the system knows.
Tripswitch tracks the live health of a dependency across your system. Each breaker evaluates real metrics over a rolling window and shows you its current state, threshold, and sample count in one place. This is the shared source of truth every service can check.
Every breaker transition is recorded with context. You can see when it opened, how severe the failure was, and when or whether it recovered. This makes intermittent problems visible instead of guesswork.
When a breaker opens, Tripswitch captures the exact evidence that caused it. The evaluation window, sample count, threshold, and the sample that pushed it over the edge, including its trace ID, are all recorded together. You can click straight from the trip to the trace that needs debugging.
Tripswitch is live and available to try.
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