Tripswitch
A shared circuit breaker for distributed systems.
Tripswitch evaluates dependency health centrally and lets your services enforce decisions locally. Instead of duplicating breaker logic across services, you get a single, shared view of what is healthy and what is not.
Use an SDK to check breaker state and report outcomes. Tripswitch handles state sync and history so your code can focus on execution and fallback.
Official SDKs: Go
What it does
Teams use Tripswitch to:
- detect when a dependency is degrading
- prevent cascading failure
- understand why something tripped
- coordinate behavior across services
SDK-first integration
Use one of our official SDKs to check breaker state and report outcomes within your service logic. SDKs handle state sync and batching of outcomes so you can focus on your code.
Tripswitch exposes a consistent API for configuration and state delivery, but you'll most often interact with it via an SDK in your service.
Breakers can be shared across:
- web services
- background jobs
- cron workers
- any system that can call an API
Who it is for
- Teams running distributed systems across multiple services, languages, or job runners who need a single source of truth for dependency health
- Teams that depend on flaky or rate-limited third-party APIs and want failures detected, explained, and shared across all consumers
- Teams that want reliability decisions visible and testable, not buried in application code
Why Tripswitch exists
Circuit breakers are supposed to protect systems from cascading failure. In practice, they end up duplicated across services and invisible when something goes wrong.
One service thinks an API is down. Another thinks it is fine. A job runner keeps retrying. A web app keeps serving traffic.
Tripswitch gives distributed systems a shared understanding of dependency health. All services report metrics into a single control plane that evaluates signals, tracks state, and exposes clear breaker decisions every consumer can see.
You still decide how your code reacts. Tripswitch decides what the system knows.
What it looks like
See live breaker health and recorded trip evidence, complete with context and trace IDs.
Get started
Tripswitch is live and available to try.
- create a project and define a breaker
- install an SDK
- integrate into your service
- observe live state and history
No credit card required