Build, connect, and operate your Business Reliability System.
Practical guides and reference material for BRS-Core, BRS-Server, and the tools you choose to use with them.
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Understand the software at the center of the system.
BRS-Core runs business capability verifiers, records their results, and exposes those results for the systems you choose to connect.
Build and Run Your First Business Capability Verifier
Download a real working verifier, inspect its structured PASS/FAIL evidence, and use the included canonical skeleton and AI guidance to build one around something your own business depends on.
- Real independently executable verifier
- Canonical verifier skeleton
- AI creation and review guidance
- No BRS-Core purchase required
BRS-Core Product Guide
Review the complete customer documentation before you purchase. See how BRS-Core is installed, configured, integrated with Prometheus, operated, and extended with business capability verifiers.
- Installation, configuration, and quick start
- Verifier architecture and canonical contract
- Prometheus integration, metrics, and endpoints
- Operations, troubleshooting, upgrades, and reference examples
BRS-Core Release Notes
Review changes in each BRS-Core release, including the v1.0.1 executable rename, bounded verifier concurrency, configuration, and upgrade considerations.
- v1.0.1 changes and upgrade notes
- v1.0.0 initial release
- Current download availability and compatibility guidance
Build Your First BRS Verifier
Open the hood. See the verifier contract, run a working example, understand the result, and learn how your business knowledge becomes executable verification.
- Canonical verifier contract explained field by field
- Command-line execution and structured results
- AI-assisted path for turning business knowledge into a verifier
- Clean integration with BRS-Core and BRS-Server
Verifier Recipe Library
Use focused, runnable verifier recipes for common business verification problems. Every recipe follows the canonical BRS verifier contract and remains independently executable.
- SSH and scheduled-file verification
- Database business-result verification
- File-to-database reconciliation
- Run approved recipes together and continuously under BRS-Core
Build a BRS Verifier with AI
Know the business requirement but not the JavaScript? Use the verifier contract and an AI coding assistant to turn your acceptance criteria into executable verification.
- Copy-and-paste prompts for analyzing the verifier contract
- Translate business requirements into observable verification steps
- Generate, review, and test an independently executable verifier
Use BRS Verifiers in Your Deployment Pipeline
Did you know the same business capability verifier BRS-Core runs continuously can also run before and after deployments?
- Use a verifier as a pre-deployment release gate
- Run it again as a post-deployment business smoke test
- Keep the same verification running continuously under BRS-Core
BRS-Core
See what BRS-Core does, how the included working examples use the W3Patterns Reference Application, and how Core fits into an existing monitoring environment.
- Working reference examples included
- Independently executable verifiers
- Metrics, health, and JSON output
What Can Be Verified?
Explore concrete examples of customer-facing and internal business capabilities that can be verified with BRS-Core.
- Browser and API capabilities
- Databases, files, and scheduled output
- Email and other business dependencies
Prepare for a clean deployment.
Know what to provision and what W3Patterns needs before deployment begins.
BRS-Server Requirements
Provision the Linux server that will host your Business Reliability System and review the access and networking requirements for a standard deployment.
- Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
- 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 60 GB SSD starting configuration
- Network and administrative access requirements
BRS-Server
See exactly what W3Patterns installs and configures on your server, what the finished system includes, and where the standard deployment ends.
- Includes BRS-Core
- Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, and Blackbox Exporter
- Customer-owned and deployed in your environment
Go beyond the standard products when you need to.
The standard products stay tightly scoped. These resources explain project boundaries and the path for custom work.
Fractional Observability Team
Need a custom verifier, BRS integration, deployment assistance, or related business reliability engineering beyond the standard product scope? W3Patterns can help at $100/hour.
Choose the product that fits your environment.
Already have monitoring? Start with BRS-Core. Need the complete system? BRS-Server includes BRS-Core and is deployed on your Linux server.