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by grhmc 3995 days ago
Or if one of the problems of the server caused logging to not correctly start :)
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Which is certainly a valid case, but I would argue that if that IS the case, and it cannot autorecover, then that is a good candidate for the instance to self terminate.
If logging never started, then your service heartbeat script should have caught it and raised an alert. Logging being down is Kinda Important.