An example branch gateway includes processing circuitry and a memory including instructions that cause the branch gateway to perform various functions. The various functions include determining a first uplink health threshold, determining a second uplink health threshold, calculating migration thresholds for a set of non-critical applications, determining that a QoS threshold of a critical application is likely to be imminently breached, selecting a least critical application, based on the migration threshold of the least critical application, and migrating the least critical application from the first uplink to a second uplink.