Observability
Prometheus missing data: test what your error-rate alert cannot see
A zero fallback can hide missing telemetry. Use a small PromQL test matrix to check what your error-rate alert can and cannot establish.
Articles
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How-To
Disruption budgets and the capacity left behind
Plan an inference-service node drain with a scoped disruption budget, replacement-capacity checks and a practical maintenance worksheet.
How-To
Prompt caching: measure the cost of useful work
Build a prompt-caching pilot that counts retries, failed work and unknown charges, with a local calculator and sample ledger.
How-To
How to evaluate incident-response agents
Build repeatable cases and check recovery independently, with a runnable Python grader.
Technology Overviews
Supervising coding agents with Herdr
Check agent status, terminal persistence, and recovery before adopting Herdr.
AIOps
What MTTD misses
Separate detection from response and find delays that an improving average can conceal.
AIOps
When agents can change production
Define the action, contain its scope, and verify what changed at the destination.
How-To
Connect the signals with OpenTelemetry
Use instrumentation and context propagation to connect the evidence in an investigation.
How-To
The SRE and platform handoff
Clarify ownership across shared platforms, service reliability, and incident response.
How-To
What did the postmortem fix prove?
Separate a completed task from evidence that the underlying risk was reduced.
AIOps
The operational cost of AI tokens
Account for context limits, retries, latency, and the work behind a useful result.
How-To
Use the 5 Whys without forcing an incident into one cause
Follow evidence through technical failure and incident response, then test whether the proposed correction changes the mechanism.