Health monitoring of automatically deployed and managed network pipelines

A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing executable code that, when executed by a processing device, causes the processing device to:

• instantiate, in a network environment, element instances of a plurality of elements according to a workflow comprising functions of the plurality of elements, each element of the plurality of elements defining a set of functions for deployment of an entity associated with the each element, the entity associated with each element of the plurality of elements being one of a virtual machine, container, database, and a network service;
• manage the element instances according to the functions of the plurality of elements;
• and
• invoke a health check of each element instance of the element instances following execution of each function of the functions of the plurality of elements.

A method comprising:

• instantiating, in a network environment, element instances of a plurality of elements according to a workflow comprising functions of the plurality of elements, each element of the plurality of elements defining a set of functions for deployment of an entity associated with the each element, the entity associated with each element of the plurality of elements being one of a virtual machine, container, database, and a network service;
• performing a health check of each element instance in response to executing of a function of the set of functions of each element instance;
• scheduling periodic health checks of each element instance at predefined intervals;
• and
• when the function of each element instance was executed within a threshold time from a scheduled time of execution of a periodic health check of the periodic health checks of each element instance, suspending the periodic health check.