CloudWatch alarm debugging, root cause analysis, and AWS operations for small teams.
The step-by-step CloudWatch investigation workflow that replaces a missing SRE.
7 min read
The three changes that consistently push MTTR below 5 minutes on small teams.
5 min read
Why WhatsApp's simplicity beats a full incident dashboard at 3am.
4 min read
A breakdown of hidden costs that most startup founders underestimate.
6 min read
The honest comparison of what each tool does well — and what you actually need at under 20 engineers.
8 min read
A simple rotation structure that works when everyone is also the engineer on-call.
5 min read
Every CloudWatch alarm your AWS infrastructure needs — ECS, EC2, RDS, Lambda, ALB, API Gateway, SQS, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, and cost alerts.
15 min read
What to do in the first 5 minutes — and why most engineers spend 30 minutes doing it.
6 min read
Five phases, one goal: from the moment an alarm fires to the post-mortem that stops it happening again.
12 min read
How to combine multiple CloudWatch alarms into a single signal that only fires when users are actually affected.
10 min read
A curated list of the alarms that catch real incidents — with exact thresholds, a CloudFormation template, and the decision rules that separate signal from noise.
9 min read
A self-resolving alarm isn't automatically harmless. Here's how to tell the difference between noise and a real problem cycling through the same failure.
7 min read
The alarm configurations that look correct in documentation but page your team 40 times a month for nothing — and the exact fixes.
9 min read
The queries that find root cause in under 2 minutes — organised by AWS service, ready to copy.
10 min read
Six metric math patterns — error rates, saturation %, compound conditions — that static thresholds can't express.
11 min read