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Wolf Incident Postmortem

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Re: Wolf Incident Postmortem

#7

It took me longer than I care to admit to figure out this wasn't talking about a real incident. I figured flock was about some Kubernetes/VM thing.

Context for those wondering: The Boy Who Cried Wolf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_Who_Cried_Wolf#The_fab...

Re: Wolf Incident Postmortem

#10
The only wolf evidence are alerts by a now-missing sentry saying "wolf" twice and "real wolf" once. Yet the conclusion due to missing sentry is 'wolf', and not only that, that there must have been only one wolf rather than a pack. If you don't have supporting evidence, this conclusion may be faulty, and the real fault may return.

My initial reaction is that there is no wolf. The sentinel began exhibiting a mental bug that reoccurred for 2 days until the sentinel broke and wandered off. I think the resolution should have an action item to continue closely monitoring sentinels for further bugs, and collect metrics to show proof of wolf. And, you know, maybe come up with an additional wolf countermeasure (if the fault was a wolf, it will probably come back)

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