The present disclosure relates to health measurement and remediation of distributed systems upgrades. One method includes communicating a request for a health status to a cluster store provided by a cluster of hosts of a software-defined datacenter, wherein the cluster store includes a plurality of process instances undergoing a rolling upgrade, receiving a health status indication in response to the request, the health status indication determined based on a determination of whether the cluster store is available and a determination of whether the cluster store is operational, and taking a remediation action in response to the health status indication exceeding a threshold.