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ALL SYSTEMS PURRING
display adapter not found. the cat is in there somewhere, trust the log.
/var/log/cat.logtail -f
- [--:--:--] monitor booting. if this line stays here, javascript is asleep on the keyboard.
DATACAT(1)Rackroom ManualDATACAT(1)
NAME
datacat, server monitoring supervised by a cat
SYNOPSIS
datacat [--watch] [--ignore-alerts] [--sit-on-keyboard]
DESCRIPTION
At 3:12am every graph on the wall went red. The logs pointed at a single user. The user had whiskers.
Datacat is the monitoring console that finally reports the root cause honestly. It is warm, it weighs four kilos, and it is sitting on rack 03 because rack 03 runs hot.
KNOWN ISSUES
- Pressing any key sends
gggggggggggggto production. - Uptime is measured between naps.
- Alerts are acknowledged by being sat on.
- The pager was knocked off the desk in March.
POSTMORTEM #0001 · the 3:12 outage
| 03:12 | all dashboards turn red at once |
| 03:13 | on-call engineer wakes up, opens laptop, laptop is occupied |
| 03:14 | root cause identified: cat |
| 03:15 | root cause falls asleep |
| 03:40 | engineer decides the cat outranks him |
| ACTION | buy a second keyboard. the cat will pick that one |