An embodiment includes a method for autonomous healing of an application comprising a plurality of microservices. The method comprises the steps of detecting a performance degradation of at least a portion of the application; and responsive to detecting the performance degradation, downgrading at least one of the plurality of microservices within the application. The downgrading comprises deploying a prior version of the at least one of the plurality of microservices; and routing at least a portion of traffic to the prior version instead of a current version of the at least one of the plurality of microservices.