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Appreciation post: old school sysadmins who taught me the basics
Had coffee with my old boss Jerry last week, the guy who ran our network back in 2003. He asked if I still check logs manually and I laughed because I automated everything years ago. Then he said "automation is great until it hides the one weird pattern you'd catch with your own eyes." That got me thinking about how many alerts I miss because I trust the tools too much. Has anyone else found themselves going back to basic log checks after relying on automation for too long?
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faith_perez5h ago
Oh I totally disagree, automation catches way more than we ever could manually.
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emma6844h ago
three years ago I had a monitoring stack that caught maybe 80% of our issues but missed a slow memory leak that only showed up in the logs every 6 hours. Jerry's point about the one weird pattern is exactly what I'm talking about. How do you balance trusting your automated alerts versus still eyeballing raw logs regularly without going insane from the volume?
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