Tag: incident-response
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Structured logging that actually helps: Serilog fields that matter in .NET incidents
When logs are noisy but useless: why incidents stay unsolved, which fields actually explain failures, and the minimal schema that makes .NET outages diagnosable.
OpenTelemetry for .NET: minimum viable tracing for production debugging
When incidents span multiple services and logs cannot explain latency: the smallest OpenTelemetry setup that makes production debugging possible without a full rewrite.
Idempotency keys for APIs: stop duplicate orders, emails, and writes
When retries create duplicate side effects, idempotency keys are the only safe fix. This playbook shows how to design keys, store results, and prove duplicates cannot recur.
HttpClient keeps getting 429s: why retries amplify rate limiting in .NET
When retries multiply 429 errors instead of fixing them: how retry amplification happens, how to prove it, and how to honor Retry-After with budgets.
Cannot trace requests across services: why correlation IDs die at boundaries in .NET
A production playbook for when logs exist but cannot be joined—correlation IDs die at HttpClient boundaries, jobs, and queues, making incidents unreproducible.
Retries making outages worse: when resilience policies multiply failures in .NET
Retry storms don't look like a bug—they look like good engineering until retries amplify failures and multiply in-flight requests during backpressure.
Requests timing out but CPU normal: thread pool starvation in ASP.NET
When requests time out but CPU is low and restarting fixes it temporarily: how thread pool starvation happens, how to prove queueing, and the smallest fixes that stop repeat incidents.
Requests hang forever: why missing timeouts cause recurring outages in .NET
When requests hang forever and recycling releases stuck work: why missing timeouts create backlog, how to add budgets safely, and the rollout plan that prevents new incidents.
Background jobs stuck but look healthy: why workers hang forever with no alerts in .NET
When background jobs hang but workers look healthy and queue pileup grows: why jobs fail silently without timeouts or heartbeats, and the runbook that stops repeat incidents.
Agent keeps calling same tool: why autonomous agents loop forever in production
When agent loops burn tokens calling same tool repeatedly and cost spikes: why autonomous agents loop without stop rules, and the guardrails that prevent repeat execution and duplicate side effects.
API key suddenly forbidden: why exchange APIs ban trading bots without warning
When API key flips from working to 403 forbidden after bot runs for hours: why exchange APIs ban trading bots for traffic bursts, retry storms, and auth failures, and the client behavior that prevents it.
Signature invalid but bot was working: why clock drift breaks auth suddenly
When bot gets signature invalid or 401 after working fine for hours: why clock drift breaks exchange auth suddenly, and the time calibration that prevents it.