Diagnostics

Free checks that answer a question about your own estate. Run them yourself, inspect the findings and see where each check stops.

  • Spreadsheet Health Check

    Live

    What is your workbook relying on that nobody has written down?

    Run 17 checks across four groups: key-person exposure, broken today, hidden fragility and won't scale. The findings give you a starting point for deciding what needs attention.

    • Runs entirely in your browser
    • Nothing uploaded
    • Open-source engine under the MIT licence
    • Hashed, provenance-attested bundle so you can verify what scored your workbook

    LimitThe workbook is what gets checked. Decisions about the process around it still need the people who run it.

    Check a spreadsheet

  • Azure Well-Architected Taster

    Live

    What do Azure's own signals say about your estate?

    Get a headline score across the five Well-Architected pillars, drawn from Azure Advisor and Defender signals. Run it from your own Azure CLI in about a minute.

    • Deterministic and read-only
    • No sign-up
    • Nothing leaves your tenant

    LimitAt least 40 of Microsoft's 59 checklist recommendations cannot be read off a machine at all. Every report states that ceiling. The score covers the available signals; it cannot establish launch readiness.

    Get the free taster (external site)

  • terraverdict

    Live

    What does this Terraform plan actually destroy?

    Rank a plan by how much damage each change can do, with the ones that lose data first. It gives you Terraform's own stated reason for a replacement and the attribute that forced it, flags a rename that forgot a moved block, and separates a real change from a value that was only written differently.

    • Deterministic, with no model in the loop - the same plan always gives the same verdict
    • Reads a plan file and nothing else: no credentials, no network, no apply
    • Never prints an attribute's value, in any format - not masked, not redacted
    • Open-source engine under the MIT licence, with a GitHub Action for pull requests

    LimitSome of what a change does cannot be known until apply, and the report names those parts rather than ranking them. It states what the plan does; whether to approve it stays with the reviewer, and the pipeline gate is off until you turn it on.

    Get terraverdict (external site)

  • Integration Health Check

    In build

    What talks to what, and what silently doesn't?

    An inventory of connections across common SaaS and database estates, with a systems map as the output.

    In build. Not available to run yet.

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