How RuntimeHQ Works

RuntimeHQ bridges the gap between infrastructure monitoring and application behavior, providing a centralized control plane for declaring and propagating operational states.

The Operational Control Flow

When an incident occurs, RuntimeHQ sits precisely at the moment of decision-turning human-declared operational states into machine-readable payloads that your applications consume instantly.

1. Monitoring & Observability
   Anomalies are detected via your existing metrics, logs, and tracing platforms (e.g., Datadog, Splunk, Elastic, New Relic).
2. Internal Alerts
   On-call engineering teams are notified of the potential issue (e.g., via PagerDuty, Opsgenie, VictorOps).
3. Impact Assessment
   The team evaluates the blast radius, affected services, and user impact.
4. Incident Declaration on RuntimeHQ
   An incident is declared on RuntimeHQ, defining the precise Impact Scope and updated Operational State.
5. Instant Application Response
   Impacted applications using RuntimeHQ SDKs instantly consume the computed runtime state payload and react dynamically.

Core Mechanics

RuntimeHQ relies on three fundamental operations that decouple incident response from application deployments, ensuring your customer-facing surfaces reflect global operational reality without requiring code changes.

1. Define Impact: Use the centralized operational console or our integration points to declare an incident (such as an outage or degraded state) or schedule a maintenance window. You can explicitly link multiple applications and their specific capabilities to any active event.
2. Propagate: RuntimeHQ dynamically computes the effective state for each application whenever an incident is created, its impact scope changes, or its severity shifts. This computed state is immediately propagated globally via highly available, edge-delivered APIs and native SDKs.
3. React Instantly: Connected applications synchronize this state payload in the background. They can deterministically evaluate how each capability should behave in real-time, requiring zero application redeployments and introducing no critical-path dependencies.