·2 min read
The restart reflex that wrecks a security investigation
In an outage, restarting the unhealthy box is often the fix. In a breach, it is how you destroy the evidence you needed. Why your outage instincts betray you in a security incident.
Incident articles, page 2
More articles on incident management, monitoring, and on-call.
·3 min read
A security incident is not just another outage
An outage wants you fast. A security incident wants you careful. Why the two need different responses, and the backbone they share.
·3 min read
Your first on-call shift, and how to get through it
Your first on-call shift is less about knowing everything and more about staying calm, reading before you touch, and knowing when to escalate.
·2 min read
Your incident response has a bus factor of one
Here is a quick test for how fragile your incident response is. Imagine your best engineer is unreachable during the next outage. If that thought worries you, your bus factor is one.
·3 min read
The engineer who knows everything is a risk, not a hero
Every team has the one engineer who fixes everything. That dependency is a single point of failure with a pulse. How to spread the knowledge before it walks out the door.
·2 min read
Single-node monitoring is quietly lying to you
If your uptime checks run from one location, you are seeing one network path, not your users. Why single-node monitoring misses real outages and invents fake ones.