packet loss detection
A packet loss alert usually shows up at the worst possible time. A deployment has just finished, dashboards look mostly normal, and users report that the app feels slow, glitchy, or randomly disconnected. The first instinct is often to run ping, glance at traceroute, and start blaming the network. That&
monitor sql server
Support tickets start piling up fast when an application slows down. The first question is almost always the same. Is it the database? That moment exposes the difference between having access to SQL Server and being able to monitor SQL Server well. A few ad hoc checks in SSMS might
aws site monitoring
A familiar incident starts the search for better AWS site monitoring. CloudWatch graphs look normal, instance health is passing, and load balancers are routing traffic. Meanwhile, customers report failed logins, broken checkout steps, or a site that won't load from specific regions. That gap is why many teams
incident response automation
The page goes off at 3:07 AM. A health check failed in one region, the load balancer started shedding traffic, and the first engineer on call is now doing the same sequence that happened last month. Open dashboards. Check recent deploys. Compare regions. Restart a service. Wake up the
devops monitoring tools
A common starting point looks like this: Prometheus scraping cluster metrics, Grafana holding the dashboards everyone trusts, a simple uptime checker watching the public status page, and logs split across a cloud provider console and a separate search tool. That setup works until an incident spans all of them. Then