October 28, 2025 | by Ritika Bramhe
The Silent Failure: When Monitoring Doesn’t Wake the Right People
At 2:07 a.m., one of the core production nodes went down. CPU usage spiked, latency shot through the roof, and requests began timing out across the cluster. Monitoring tools lit up instantly. Datadog dashboards turned red, Prometheus fired alerts, and a webhook pushed incident payloads into Jira. Everything worked exactly as designed. Except no one … Continued
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