01Challenge
The slow part of an outage is the middle.
A modern microservice estate produces thousands of log lines a minute. When something breaks, an on-call engineer has to notice the alert, find the right logs, reconstruct the failing request, locate the responsible file and commit, write and test a fix, get it reviewed and ship it. The middle steps are mechanical, and they are where most of the hours go.
Context is scattered
Logs, source code and deployment state live in three different systems. Someone has to stitch a trace ID to a file to a commit by hand.
Tools only report
Traditional dashboards show that something broke, not why, and they never propose a fix.
The same bugs come back
Null checks, type mismatches and timeouts get re-diagnosed from scratch by whoever is on call that week.