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Alert Fatigue by Design
Using inhibition rules so a critical alert silences its own warning-level echo instead of paging on-call twice for one root cause.
Two Deploy Paths, Two Artifacts
A static site gets rsync'd straight to where it's served. A containerized app goes through build, push, pull. Keeping those pipelines different was the deliberate choice.
Back to Deploying Everything, Every Run
A path-detection optimization that only redeployed what changed produced silent false negatives on fresh checkouts. We reverted to deploying everything, every run.
Metrics, Logs, and Uptime Are Not the Same Signal
Metrics, logs, and uptime checks are different signal types answering different questions, not one generic monitoring bucket, even on tiny personal infrastructure.