4 articles tagged monitoring.
A nightly export ran green for six weeks while sending nothing, because the API key it used had an expiration date on it and a housekeeping cron deleted the record the day after it lapsed. The three ways a credential dies, why only one of them is loud, and the register, the gauge and the authenticated probe that turn a surprise outage into a calendar entry.
A dark screen is a support ticket. A screen still showing last week's price is a lie in your store, and nothing in a normal monitoring stack will tell you about it. Content as a versioned bundle instead of a URL, day-parts that depend on a clock you don't control, expiry as a safety feature, and telemetry that reports what's actually on the glass.
SaaS observability bills scale with pod count, not with incidents. The VictoriaMetrics + Grafana stack we run in every cluster we operate, and the alerting rule that matters more than the dashboard.
Server logs tell you something broke after a user calls. Error tracking tells you first, with the full traceback and context. How we wire Odoo to Sentry or self-hosted GlitchTip with the OCA sentry module.