When Kafka Consumer Lag spikes, simply scaling consumers is often not enough. This post walks through practical incident analysis: distinguishing broker issues from consumer issues, checking partition imbalance, spotting retry storms, and finding downstream bottlenecks that actually caused the lag.
Grafana Labs published its 2026 Observability Survey on March 18, 2026. This post looks at what the survey reveals about AI in incident response, trust, and practical operating models.
A monthly report covering the most important Cloud, AI, DevOps, Backend, Architecture, and Incident trends for practitioners in April 2026, plus the checkpoints worth watching next month.
A practical weekly summary of the most important Cloud, AI, DevOps, Backend, Architecture, and Incident trends for the third week of April 2026.
A practical incident guide for diagnosing database connection exhaustion. Covers application pool configuration, slow queries, connection leaks, traffic spikes, and a step-by-step recovery approach.