Executive Health Score

A single, actionable health score for your infrastructure, providing clear visibility for leadership and engineering teams.

Overview

The Executive Health Score distills the complexity of your infrastructure into a single, meaningful number. It combines multiple dimensions -- security, compliance, reliability, cost efficiency, and operational maturity -- into a weighted score that gives leadership clear visibility into infrastructure health at a glance.

Score composition

The health score is composed of weighted sub-scores:

Component	Default weight	Description
Security	30%	Exposure, encryption coverage, IAM hygiene, vulnerability posture
Compliance	20%	Policy compliance, control satisfaction, audit readiness
Reliability	25%	Redundancy, backup coverage, uptime, SPoF count
Cost efficiency	15%	Waste percentage, right-sizing coverage, RI utilization
Operational maturity	10%	Tag compliance, documentation coverage, ownership clarity

Configurable weights

Organizations can customize the weight of each component to match their priorities. For example, a financial institution might increase the compliance weight, while a startup might prioritize cost efficiency.

Executive dashboard

The executive dashboard provides a high-level view designed for leadership:

Health score gauge -- prominent score display with color coding (green 80+, yellow 60-80, red below 60)
Component breakdown -- bar or radar chart showing each component's contribution
Scope comparison -- health scores per scope/environment side by side
Trend line -- score trajectory over the last 30, 60, 90 days
Top degraders -- the top 3-5 factors currently dragging the score down
Recent wins -- improvements that have increased the score recently

Trends and goals

The health score system supports trend tracking and goal setting:

Score history -- view how the score has evolved over days, weeks, or months
Goal setting -- set target scores with deadlines (e.g., "reach 85 by Q3")
Progress tracking -- track progress toward goals with automated status updates
Alert thresholds -- receive alerts when the score drops below a threshold
Benchmarking -- compare your score against industry averages (optional telemetry)

Reporting

Health score reports are designed for executive consumption:

Weekly snapshot -- brief summary emailed to stakeholders every Monday
Monthly review -- detailed report with trends, top improvements, and recommendations
Quarterly business review -- comprehensive report with year-over-year comparison
Board-ready PDF -- formatted report suitable for board of directors presentations

# Executive health score report
{
  "overall_score": 82.4,
  "trend": "improving",
  "components": {
    "security": { "score": 85.0, "weight": 0.30, "trend": "stable" },
    "compliance": { "score": 78.0, "weight": 0.20, "trend": "improving" },
    "reliability": { "score": 88.0, "weight": 0.25, "trend": "improving" },
    "cost_efficiency": { "score": 72.0, "weight": 0.15, "trend": "degrading" },
    "operational_maturity": { "score": 80.0, "weight": 0.10, "trend": "stable" }
  },
  "top_degraders": [
    "Right-sizing coverage (12% of compute resources oversized)",
    "Tag compliance (78% of resources have required tags)"
  ],
  "goal": {
    "target": 85,
    "deadline": "2025-09-30",
    "progress": "on_track"
  }
}