[ SRE_ARENA ]
DAILY INCIDENT CHALLENGE

SREdle #42 β€” The Midnight Pager

sre@arena: ~/prod-api-cluster

[CRITICAL] CPU utilization > 95% on prod-api-cluster. Error rate spiking to 14%.

You have 5 commands to diagnose and resolve the incident.

sre@arena:~/prod$ top β†’ 🟩 Useful
sre@arena:~/prod$ systemctl restart nginx β†’ πŸŸ₯ Did not resolve
sre@arena:~/prod$ β–ˆ
COMMAND HISTORY β€” 2/5 USED
top🟩 Useful
systemctl restart nginxπŸŸ₯ Did not resolve