Techniques for efficient reporting of a health status of a system resource are disclosed. In some embodiments, a computer system performs a method comprising: computing a connection failure rate value of a resource based on connection failure rate data indicating a rate at which requests to connect to the resource failed; computing an operation failure rate value of the resource based on operation failure rate data indicating a rate at which requests for the resource to execute a resource operation failed; determining that the connection failure rate value satisfies a connection failure condition or the operation failure rate value satisfies an operation failure condition; based on the determining that the connection failure rate value or the operation failure rate value satisfies its respective failure condition, attempting to establish a connection to the resource; and determining a status of the resource based on the attempting to establish the connection.