Incident Runbooks

Step-by-step playbooks for when things go sideways. Interactive checklists with copy-paste commands.

Prometheus Target Down — No Metrics Being Scraped

Fix a target stuck in `DOWN` on Prometheus's /targets page. Covers network reachability, /metrics format, relabeling mistakes, TLS/auth, and scrape timing.

15 min7 steps

prometheusscrapetargetmetricsmonitoringobservability

Pod Not Starting — Interactive Diagnostic

InteractiveP1

Click through symptoms to diagnose why your Kubernetes pod won't start. Covers CrashLoopBackOff, ImagePullBackOff, Pending, and Error states with targeted fix commands.

10 min20 nodes

kubernetespodcrashloopbackoffimagepullbackoffpendingdiagnostictroubleshooting

High CPU / Memory — Interactive Diagnostic

InteractiveP2

Diagnose high CPU or memory usage on Linux. Branches into process identification, OOM killer analysis, memory leaks, CPU steal, and swap management with targeted fix commands.

10 min15 nodes

linuxcpumemoryoomperformanceswapdiagnostictroubleshooting