# Introducing Auto Healing on RunCloud
**URL:** https://community.runcloud.io/t/introducing-auto-healing-on-runcloud/4482
**Category:** Announcements
**Created:** [August 13, 2025, 10:08am UTC](https://community.runcloud.io/t/introducing-auto-healing-on-runcloud/4482 "2025-08-13T10:08:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@alex](https://community.runcloud.io/u/alex)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2025, 10:08am UTC](https://community.runcloud.io/t/introducing-auto-healing-on-runcloud/4482/1 "2025-08-13T10:08:47Z")
Hey everyone,
I hope your week is off to a great start.
We’re excited ot introduce **Auto Healing**.
We’ve all been there: your site goes down, traffic drops to zero, and you scramble to find out why. And often all you need to do is restart a service that’s crashed.
When Auto Healing is enabled, RunCloud now **automatically detects** and **restarts** failed services like NGINX, MariaDB, Redis, and PHP-FPM, often before you even notice there’s a problem.
**Auto Healing** continuously monitors your server’s critical services, **NGINX, MariaDB, PHP-FPM, Redis** , and steps in the moment something crashes. Here’s what’s happening behind the scenes:
- **Constant monitoring** : It watches for unexpected service stops. If you stop a service for maintenance, it won’t touch it.
- **Instant recovery** : If a crash is detected, RunCloud attempts to restart the service immediately.
- **Smart retry logic** : It will try up to five times. If it restarts successfully, the counter resets and monitoring resumes as normal.
- **Fail-safe alerting** : If it fails all five attempts, Auto Healing stops trying and sends you a final notification. That’s your signal that the issue may be deeper, like a misconfiguration or exhausted resources.
It’s designed to be intelligent, hands-off, and transparent, so you’re not left guessing what happened.
To ensure every server gets this protection, **Auto Healing is enabled by default on all servers** , both new and old (assuming they’re running the minimum version of the RunCloud agent that is required → **v2.13.0+7** )
You can manually disable it under **Server \> Settings \> Auto Healing Services Settings**
We’re incredibly excited for you to get your hands on this & look forward to hearing feedback as it starts working in the background to keep your web applications online.
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### Author:  [@alex](https://community.runcloud.io/u/alex)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2025, 10:28am UTC](https://community.runcloud.io/t/introducing-auto-healing-on-runcloud/4482/2 "2025-08-13T10:28:41Z")
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### Author:  [@justin](https://community.runcloud.io/u/justin)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2025, 5:21pm UTC](https://community.runcloud.io/t/introducing-auto-healing-on-runcloud/4482/3 "2025-08-14T17:21:49Z")
This is a great move and Alex (I believe) confirmed on the Facebook post that this works with OpenLiteSpeed, also.
I would like to see documentation that goes with this feature that states explicitly how it works.
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### Author:  [@alex](https://community.runcloud.io/u/alex)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2025, 5:31pm UTC](https://community.runcloud.io/t/introducing-auto-healing-on-runcloud/4482/4 "2025-08-14T17:31:59Z")
Hey @justin 👋
Glad to hear. Let me know if you have any specific questions.
We are already planning to expand the help doc with some more details: [Understanding the RunCloud Auto Healing Feature | RunCloud Docs](https://runcloud.io/docs/auto-healing)
(which will address the follow-up question you had on Facebook)
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### Author:  [@blooom](https://community.runcloud.io/u/blooom)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2025, 7:08am UTC](https://community.runcloud.io/t/introducing-auto-healing-on-runcloud/4482/5 "2025-08-15T07:08:17Z")
Nice work RC, awesome to see features like this really adding value to the service. Cheers!
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### Author:  [@justin](https://community.runcloud.io/u/justin)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2025, 8:33am UTC](https://community.runcloud.io/t/introducing-auto-healing-on-runcloud/4482/6 "2025-08-28T08:33:43Z")
Just glancing at this - but it looks like much or all of what I wanted to see was addressed. Thank you.
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### Author:  [@alex](https://community.runcloud.io/u/alex)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2025, 8:38am UTC](https://community.runcloud.io/t/introducing-auto-healing-on-runcloud/4482/7 "2025-08-28T08:38:11Z")
Great to hear – thank you for sharing @blooom & @justin. Let us know if you have any feedback on how Auto Healing is working on your setups, etc. if/when it triggers. 🙌