alt Hacker Newslet's say you a bunch of database timeouts in a row. this might mean that nothing needs to be fixed. But also, the "thing that needs to be fixed" might be "the ethernet cable fell out the back of your server".
How do you know?
let's say you a bunch of database timeouts in a row. this might mean that nothing needs to be fixed. But also, the "thing that needs to be fixed" might be "the ethernet cable fell out the back of your server".
How do you know?
You have an alert on what users actually care about, like the overall success rate. When it goes off, you check the WARNING log and metric dashboard and see that requests are timing out.