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Re:It's the end of observability as we know it (and I feel f... by bravesoul2 on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @03:13AM (#44245003)
This AI usage ain't that. When diagnosing SRE type issues you want useful facts fast. You are playing detective and AI provides leads but you still need to make human decisions for most things. AI could do stuff like rollbacks of recent deployments tho.
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Re:It's the end of observability as we know it (and I feel f... by vasco on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @03:23AM (#44245051)
Auto rolling back on bad metrics post deployment is something that doesn't require AI. Not in a "you can do it with a lot of work and a huge team" sense, but in a "take a few days to review your metrics and then implement it in a day".
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Re:It's the end of observability as we know it (and I feel f... by bravesoul2 on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @03:55AM (#44245232)
Yeah for context I mean doing slow rollouts and checking error rates on a new deployment is a given. That's not AI.

But for an alert for a deployment that has been out for a while there is a bit of a decision to be made as whether to roll back, scale up etc. sometimes rolling back achieves nothing other than increasing the delta again when you roll forward and delaying stuff.

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