How to force machine restart if checks are failing?

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Hmm, the staff advice on this old post is that it is not possible as a config option:

How to restart v2 app on failed health checks

I already had 2 cases where my deployed fly apps crash and fly doesn’t restart them. How to restart machines on failed health checks? I am deploying Next.js, which seems to run multiple processes, so the container will not terminate and stay in an invalid state, not responding to any request.

I suggested here a little while ago how it can be done if you don’t mind doing it yourself:

Restart machines when health check fails

Hey there! From the docs, I fail to understand what exactly the health check is doing when it fails. Does it restart the machines? Also, I’m not sure what’s the difference between services.http_checks and http_service.checks - aren’t they the same? I have a memory leak in my nodejs server (not my code base, so it’ll take a while to figure out) and every once in a while, the server hangs. I was wondering if I could use the health check to restart the machines, or shut them down and start new on…