What Bot Health Actually Measures

Objective

Understand that bot health is not one signal. A healthy bot needs recent heartbeats, working queues, valid exchange responses, available balance, and risk rules that can still protect the account.

Workflow

• Start with the last heartbeat timestamp and confirm the bot is still cycling.
• Check whether queue jobs are delayed, failing, or building up faster than they complete.
• Review exchange API status separately from strategy status because a good strategy can still fail on connectivity.
• Confirm wallet and credit state before assuming a trade rejection is strategy related.

Operator Checklist

• Heartbeat is recent for the configured scan interval.
• No repeated critical log messages in the last monitoring window.
• Exchange API returns normal account and market data responses.
• Risk limits and circuit breakers are readable by the bot.

Common Mistakes To Avoid

• Treating every skipped trade as a system failure.
• Ignoring queue delays because the web dashboard still loads.
• Changing strategy settings before confirming infrastructure health.

Practice

Open the health view and write down which signal would fail first if the exchange API stopped responding for five minutes.