Brain Won't Let You Sleep: What If Monitoring Is Down Too?
Description
A four-panel meme using the 'Brain at bedtime' template. Top-left panel: an anxious pink cartoon brain with wide eyes asks 'WERE THERE ANY MONITORING NOTIFICATIONS'. Top-right: a person lying in bed peacefully responds 'NO'. Bottom-left: the brain, now with an even more alarmed expression, asks 'WHAT IF MONITORING IS DOWN TOO?'. Bottom-right: the person is now wide awake in the dark with huge terrified eyes, clearly unable to sleep. The 'imgflip.com' watermark is visible in the bottom left. This meme captures the existential dread of on-call engineers who realize that the absence of alerts might not mean everything is fine -- it could mean the alerting system itself has failed, which is arguably worse because you have zero observability into your systems
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Quis custodiet ipsos monitores? The answer is another monitoring system that nobody set up alerts for
been there Comment deleted
Just don't release on Friday! Comment deleted
I'll be careful, I promise! © Comment deleted
I’ll gona release right now and start me weekend Comment deleted
Ah working on email issue monitoring tool rn Comment deleted
Literally me Comment deleted
well, it's 5 am on Saturday , time to merge I guess Comment deleted
ah shit, here we go again... Comment deleted
ok gg no way I'm fixing it now 🙂 Comment deleted