cloud-test: Happy holidays and an anomalously great New Year

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Happy holidays and an anomalously great New Year

Thursday, December 22, 2016

Posted by Alex Barrett, Editor, Google Cloud Platform BlogTwas the night before Christmas and all through the CloudNot a creature was deploying; it wasn't allowed.The servers were all hosted in GCP or AWSAnd Stackdriver was monitoring them so no one was stressed.

The engineers were nestled all snug in their bedsWhile visions of dashboards danced in their heads.When then from my nightstand, there arose such a clatter,I silenced my phone and checked what was the matter.

Elevated error rates and latency through the roof?At this rate our error budget soon would go poof!The Director OOO, the CTO on vacation,Who would I find still manning their workstation?

Dutifully, I opened the incident channel on SlackAnd couldn't believe when someone answered back.SClaus was the user name of this tireless engineer.I wasn't aware that this guy even worked here.

He wrote, "Wait while I check your Stackdriver yule Logs . . .Yep, it seems the errors are all coming from your blogs."Then in Error Reporting, he found the root cause"Quota is updated. All fixed. :-)" typed SClaus.

Who this merry DevOps elf was, I never shall know.For before we did our postmortem, away did he go.Just before vanishing, he took time to write,"Merry monitoring to all and to all a silent night!"