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by nmadden 210 days ago
> Crashing is not an outage.

Are you in the right thread?

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Did you skip all the other context about the other systems that failed?

The problem was a query producing incorrect data. The crash helped them find it.

What do you think happens when a program crashes?

> The crash helped them find it.

Barely given the initial impression it was a DDoS.

Although you can argue that's bad observability.