A lightweight scoring tool for quick system health assessment.

Scoring Model

Rate each dimension 1–5:

• 1: Not implemented / unknown
• 2: Partially implemented, major gaps
• 3: Implemented but not tuned
• 4: Implemented and tuned
• 5: Implemented, tuned, and monitored with alerts

Scorecard

System: _______________  Date: _______________  Engineer: _______________

DIMENSION                         SCORE  EVIDENCE / NOTES
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Query Performance                 [1-5]  ___________________________
  (no N+1, indexes, query plans reviewed)

Connection Management             [1-5]  ___________________________
  (pool configured, sized, leak detection)

Caching                           [1-5]  ___________________________
  (hit rate >80%, TTL set, eviction policy)

API Latency SLOs                  [1-5]  ___________________________
  (p99 <200ms read, <500ms write)

Observability                     [1-5]  ___________________________
  (RED metrics, distributed tracing, logs)

Reliability                       [1-5]  ___________________________
  (circuit breakers, retries, timeouts)

Security                          [1-5]  ___________________________
  (auth, rate limiting, input validation)

Scalability                       [1-5]  ___________________________
  (stateless, horizontal scaling tested)

TOTAL                             /40    ___________________________

Score Interpretation

Next Steps

For each dimension scoring 1–3, run the full audit from ../enterprise-kit/backend-audit-checklist.md for that dimension to get specific action items.