A system and method for failover for cloud-native applications, such as cloud-native video-conferencing services, that includes a software agent that monitors the health of services executing on servers. An agent monitors predefined metrics of a service and sends alerts to a plan-execution system when a monitored metric fails to satisfy a predefined condition. The plan-execution system applies predefined rules to received alerts to determine whether a service is failing. The plan-execution system instructs a command center to redirect client requests for a failing service to a failover service.