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What tools like these need is monitoring capacity. Hook your diagrams to your logs and health status, and then you have a compelling reason to actually keep them up to date.



Yeah I was thinking something like this too, hopefully someone makes this if it hasn't been already.

If the diagrams had some linkage to your code you'd be able to see what a failed unit test means in the overall context of the app, what code is used in which block, what protocol is used for connections between blocks, a summary of what each block does etc...

A monitoring tool as you say - and since you'll use it often you'll probably keep it up to date


Kind of more limited to a 200OK-level health check, but Structurizr does support basic checks like this (https://structurizr.com/help/health-checks) - though I do love the idea of being able to add links to an object so you could jump the log page of that service in your logging platform.




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