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Notes from building DeployAngel: what it takes to decide whether a Rails deploy worked.

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• October 4, 2026 · Jordan Owens

  Your health check isn't evidence your deploy worked

  DeployAngel's own releases were clearing at High confidence, mostly on the strength of Rails' /up health check. What health checks do to your error rate and p95, and what to count instead.

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