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title: "Introducing PC Health: Proactive Monitoring and Self-Healing for Windows Devices"
description: "K12Panel launches PC Health: real-time device monitoring, custom checks, and self-healing automation for Windows devices in K12 school IT fleets."
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# Introducing PC Health: Proactive Monitoring and Self-Healing for Windows Devices
by [Admin](https://k12panel.com/news-blog/author/admin)
Jul 5, 2026, 11:43:34 PM
Today we're launching **PC Health** — a new capability in K12Panel that continuously measures the *condition* of your managed Windows devices, tells you when something crosses a line you care about, and, when you want it to, **fixes the problem for you and verifies it's actually resolved** before anyone files a ticket.
If you want the full concept walkthrough, start with [About PC Health and Self-Healing](https://k12panel.com/kb/pc-health-and-soar/pc-health-about). Otherwise, here's everything that's new.
## Health checks: know before they call
At the heart of PC Health is the **health check** — a small measurement taken on a device that answers one question with one number. K12Panel ships with built-in checks for the basics:
- **Disk free** on the system drive
- **Uptime** since the last reboot
- **Pending-reboot age** — how long a reboot has been waiting
- **Agent offline** — fires when a device stops checking in at all
And you're not limited to those. If a short PowerShell command can measure it, you can turn it into a check — a service's running state, free memory, certificate days-to-expiry, last backup age, whatever matters to you. Writing one is simple: your script computes a number (or throws if it can't), and K12Panel handles the rest. See [Writing Custom Health Checks](https://k12panel.com/kb/pc-health-and-soar/pc-health-checks) for the contract and copy-paste examples.
## Policies: the right thresholds for the right devices
A check only *measures* — what counts as a warning or a critical is decided in a **policy**. This separation is deliberate: the same "disk free" check can be strict for a lab server and relaxed for a student laptop, just by applying a different policy.
Policies let you:
- Set **thresholds** per check ("warn under 15% free, critical under 5%").
- Apply one policy as the **organization-wide default**, and bind others to **asset groups** (with priority when a device matches more than one).
- Define a **maintenance window** so disruptive fixes only run after hours.
- **Pause** a policy for the summer and have it auto-resume.
## See the health of any device at a glance
Every monitored device gets a **Health tab** showing live gauges and stoplights for each check, its current status (Healthy / Warning / Critical / Unknown), and a clear list of open issues — each on its own severity-banded card so nothing gets lost. If an issue is expected or being handled elsewhere, you can **mute** it for 7 days, 30 days, or indefinitely, and unmute it any time. Muting silences the alert (and pauses automation) without hiding the record.
## Alerts that reach your team
When an issue crosses the line, K12Panel raises a **PC Health Alert** and can email the administrators who subscribe — so your team learns about the almost-full disks and dead services from one place, proactively, instead of from a ticket. Muted and actively-healing issues stay quiet.
## Self-healing: the SOAR pattern, applied to device health
Here's where it gets powerful. PC Health borrows a pattern from the security-operations world called **SOAR** — *detect → decide → act → verify* — and applies it to ordinary device health. When a check fails, K12Panel can run a **remediation** (a fix), then **re-run the check** to confirm the problem is actually gone.
- **Built-in fixes** to start with: Disk Cleanup, Reboot Device, Restart Agent.
- **Write your own** in PowerShell — restart a service, clear a cache, kill a runaway process. See [Writing Custom Remediations](https://k12panel.com/kb/pc-health-and-soar/pc-health-remediations).
- **Suggested or Automatic**: wire a fix as *Suggested* (a one-click **Run** button on the device) or *Automatic* (it runs unattended). Suggested is the default, so you build trust before letting anything run on its own.
The most important idea: **the check is the source of truth, not the fix.** A cleanup script can run cleanly and still not free enough space — so K12Panel never trusts a fix's own "success." It re-measures, and the issue only clears when the *check* passes. You'll see both outcomes in the log: what the fix reported, and whether the check agreed.
## Built to be trusted
Automation that runs commands on devices has to be careful, so PC Health has guardrails built in:
- **Suggested-first** — nothing runs unattended until you deliberately promote it to Automatic.
- **Maintenance windows** — disruptive fixes (like a reboot) only run during the hours you allow.
- **Attempt limits and cooldowns** — an automatic fix retries a set number of times, then stops and alerts a human.
- **A fleet circuit breaker** — if a remediation starts failing across many devices, K12Panel automatically halts it and alerts an administrator, so a bad script can't stampede your fleet.
- **A full audit trail** — the **Runs** log records every attempt, automatic or manual, with its result and whether the check confirmed it. It's paginated and filterable by device.
- **Role-based access** — viewing and muting is available to Managers; editing policies to Modifiers; authoring checks and remediations to Architects.
## Share your setup across organizations
Built a great policy — the right checks, thresholds, and fixes — for one school? **Export** it as a single bundle (policy, custom checks, remediations, and the wiring between them) and **import** it into another organization. Imported items land inactive pending review, so nothing runs until you say so.
## No new install, no agent changes
PC Health runs on the **Windows agent you already have**. Checks and fixes ride the agent's normal check-in, so adding or editing one takes effect on the next check-in — there's nothing to deploy to the device and no agent update to wait for.
## Getting started
1. Open **PC Health** from the left menu and create (or adjust) a policy — the easiest start is a single organization-wide default with the built-in checks enabled.
2. Watch the alerts roll in for a week. Just *knowing* which devices are almost out of disk is valuable on its own.
3. When you're ready, wire a **Suggested** remediation to a check, try the **Run** button a few times, confirm it heals in the Runs log — then promote it to **Automatic**.
You don't have to use the automation to get value, and you can add your own checks and fixes whenever you like. Start simple and grow into it.
## Learn more
- [About PC Health and Self-Healing](https://k12panel.com/kb/pc-health-and-soar/pc-health-about) — the concepts, and what SOAR means for device health
- [Using PC Health in K12Panel](https://k12panel.com/kb/pc-health-and-soar/how-to-use-pc-health-in-k12panel) — the hands-on setup guide
- [Writing Custom Health Checks](https://k12panel.com/kb/pc-health-and-soar/pc-health-checks) — measure anything, with examples
- [Writing Custom Remediations](https://k12panel.com/kb/pc-health-and-soar/pc-health-remediations) — automate your own fixes, with examples
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