Aspects of the disclosure provide for mechanisms for detecting and handling discrepancies between an external circuit breaker and an internal circuit breaker applicable to applications and/or services in a computer system. A method of the disclosure includes: determining, in view of a first circuit breaker applicable to a service hosted on a computer system, a first circuit breaking rule, wherein the first circuit breaker is applicable to one or more endpoints of the computer system; determining, in view of a second circuit breaker applicable to the service, a second circuit breaking rule; and generating a warning in response to detecting a discrepancy between the first circuit breaking rule and the second circuit breaking rule.