Playbook: Weekly System Health Checks

Goal

Proactively identify issues or misconfigurations across key system areas.

Frequency

Every Monday or as part of weekly ops review.

Checklist

• Uptime and load averages:

  uptime; w
  

• Disk usage:

  df -hT
  

• Top CPU/mem processes:

  top -b -n1 | head -20
  

• Docker/Podman container health:

  docker ps --format '{{.Names}}: {{.Status}}'
  

• Log anomalies:

  journalctl -p 3 -xb
  

Bonus Checks

• Backups up-to-date
• Certs not close to expiry
• System updates pending

Output

Document in internal log, Ops Notion, or markdown status entry.