Framework for providing health status data

A non-transitory machine-readable medium storing a health monitoring service program that monitors a system comprising a set of services executing across a set of one or more datacenters, the program comprising sets of instructions for:

• for each of a plurality of services monitored by the health monitoring service:
• contacting an API exposed by the service to provide health monitoring data for the service;
• and
• receiving health monitoring data for the service that provides, for each of a plurality of aspects of the service, (i) a status and (ii) an explanation for the status in a uniform format used by the APIs of each of the services of the plurality of services,
• wherein at least two different services provide health monitoring data in the uniform format for different pluralities of aspects of the services, the health monitoring data being collected and stored by a common service at a health data store.