Autonomous vehicle edge devices diagnostics framework

An edge device for a vehicle, comprising:

• a plurality of monitors, comprising:
• a first monitor to periodically output first payloads having first edge device health status, and a second monitor to periodically output second payloads having second edge device health status, wherein the plurality of monitors include a standalone monitor to periodically query and check a first data about the edge device, and to report the first data or a derivation of the first data as payloads, wherein a primary purpose of the first data is for checking by a watchdog of a degraded state and a nested monitor implemented within a software application on the edge device that queries and checks a second data about the edge device, and to periodically report the second data or a derivation of the second data as payloads wherein a primary purpose of the second data is for use by the software application;
• wherein the first edge device health status is a first set of health status information of the edge device and wherein the second edge device health status is a second set of health status information of the edge device, and wherein the edge device health status included in the output payloads includes at least one of processor utilization of the edge device, memory utilization of the edge device, number of memory errors of the edge device, voltage of the edge device, temperature of the edge device, and a certain value of the edge device crossing a threshold and a timeout occurring within the edge device;
• an aggregator comprising:
• a payload listener to capture at least the first payloads and the second payloads and to form aggregated payloads having the first payloads and the second payloads, and a payload transmitter to transmit User Datagram Protocol (UDP) packets having the aggregated payloads over a network to a diagnostics driver on a compute system of the vehicle;
• and
• wherein the edge device is a sensor.