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THE QUESTION

Why does the same outage keep recurring?

Does one influence the other? Three quarters of the votes cast decide.

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Feature work always outranks reliability work in planning → influences? → Alerts fire so often that on-call mutes them
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Reliability has no budget line of its own→Feature flags are never cleaned up, so nobody knows which paths are liveopendiscuss
The same three services cause most of the pages→…opendiscuss
The incident channel fills with people asking for status instead of giving it→The service map in the wiki is two years oldopendiscuss
The staging environment does not resemble production→Rollbacks take longer than the outage they are meant to endopen escalateddiscuss
Tests that fail intermittently are retried until green→Customers report outages before monitoring does✓ yesdiscuss
Alerts fire so often that on-call mutes them→Customers report outages before monitoring does✓ yesdiscuss
Alerts fire so often that on-call mutes them→Every team has its own logging format✓ yesdiscuss
Every team has its own logging format→Customers report outages before monitoring does✓ yesdiscuss
The on-call rota has the same two people on it most weeks→Alerts fire so often that on-call mutes them✓ yesdiscuss
Feature work always outranks reliability work in planning→Post-mortem actions are written up and then never scheduled✓ yesdiscuss
One engineer knows how the payment path actually works→The on-call rota has the same two people on it most weeks✓ yesdiscuss
The on-call rota has the same two people on it most weeks→Post-mortem actions are written up and then never scheduled✓ yesdiscuss
Post-mortems assign actions to people who were not in the room→Post-mortem actions are written up and then never scheduled✓ yesdiscuss
The service map in the wiki is two years old→The staging environment does not resemble production✓ yesdiscuss
Rollbacks take longer than the outage they are meant to end→Reliability has no budget line of its own✓ yesdiscuss
Reliability has no budget line of its own→The staging environment does not resemble production✓ yesdiscuss
Retries are unbounded, so a slow dependency becomes a flood→The same three services cause most of the pages✓ yesdiscuss
Reliability has no budget line of its own→The incident channel fills with people asking for status instead of giving it✓ yesdiscuss
The same three services cause most of the pages→The staging environment does not resemble production✓ yesdiscuss
The service map in the wiki is two years old→Feature flags are never cleaned up, so nobody knows which paths are live✓ yesdiscuss
Feature flags are never cleaned up, so nobody knows which paths are live→Rollbacks take longer than the outage they are meant to end✓ yesdiscuss
Feature flags are never cleaned up, so nobody knows which paths are live→The same three services cause most of the pages✓ yesdiscuss
The on-call rota has the same two people on it most weeks→Customers report outages before monitoring does✓ inferreddiscuss
Retries are unbounded, so a slow dependency becomes a flood→The staging environment does not resemble production✓ inferreddiscuss
Post-mortem actions are written up and then never scheduled→Every team has its own logging format✗ nodiscuss
Every team has its own logging format→Error budgets exist on a slide and nowhere else✗ nodiscuss
Feature work always outranks reliability work in planning→Customers report outages before monitoring does✗ nodiscuss
Error budgets exist on a slide and nowhere else→Tests that fail intermittently are retried until green✗ nodiscuss
Error budgets exist on a slide and nowhere else→One engineer knows how the payment path actually works✗ nodiscuss
Error budgets exist on a slide and nowhere else→Post-mortems assign actions to people who were not in the room✗ nodiscuss
Customers report outages before monitoring does→Post-mortems assign actions to people who were not in the room✗ nodiscuss
Post-mortem actions are written up and then never scheduled→Alerts fire so often that on-call mutes them✗ nodiscuss
Post-mortems assign actions to people who were not in the room→Alerts fire so often that on-call mutes them✗ nodiscuss
Error budgets exist on a slide and nowhere else→Customers report outages before monitoring does✗ nodiscuss
Customers report outages before monitoring does→The on-call rota has the same two people on it most weeks✗ nodiscuss
Post-mortem actions are written up and then never scheduled→Post-mortems assign actions to people who were not in the room✗ nodiscuss
Feature work always outranks reliability work in planning→Tests that fail intermittently are retried until green✗ nodiscuss
Tests that fail intermittently are retried until green→The on-call rota has the same two people on it most weeks✗ nodiscuss
Post-mortem actions are written up and then never scheduled→The on-call rota has the same two people on it most weeks✗ nodiscuss
Feature work always outranks reliability work in planning→Error budgets exist on a slide and nowhere else✗ nodiscuss
Tests that fail intermittently are retried until green→Every team has its own logging format✗ nodiscuss
The on-call rota has the same two people on it most weeks→Tests that fail intermittently are retried until green✗ nodiscuss
Post-mortems assign actions to people who were not in the room→Every team has its own logging format✗ nodiscuss
Feature work always outranks reliability work in planning→Post-mortems assign actions to people who were not in the room✗ nodiscuss
Tests that fail intermittently are retried until green→Alerts fire so often that on-call mutes them✗ nodiscuss
Post-mortems assign actions to people who were not in the room→Error budgets exist on a slide and nowhere else✗ nodiscuss
Alerts fire so often that on-call mutes them→One engineer knows how the payment path actually works✗ nodiscuss
Customers report outages before monitoring does→One engineer knows how the payment path actually works✗ nodiscuss
Alerts fire so often that on-call mutes them→Post-mortem actions are written up and then never scheduled✗ nodiscuss
Post-mortems assign actions to people who were not in the room→The on-call rota has the same two people on it most weeks✗ nodiscuss
One engineer knows how the payment path actually works→Alerts fire so often that on-call mutes them✗ nodiscuss
Customers report outages before monitoring does→Alerts fire so often that on-call mutes them✗ nodiscuss
Error budgets exist on a slide and nowhere else→The on-call rota has the same two people on it most weeks✗ nodiscuss
Feature work always outranks reliability work in planning→Every team has its own logging format✗ nodiscuss
Customers report outages before monitoring does→Post-mortem actions are written up and then never scheduled✗ nodiscuss
Customers report outages before monitoring does→Every team has its own logging format✗ nodiscuss
Customers report outages before monitoring does→Error budgets exist on a slide and nowhere else✗ nodiscuss
Post-mortem actions are written up and then never scheduled→One engineer knows how the payment path actually works✗ nodiscuss
Customers report outages before monitoring does→Tests that fail intermittently are retried until green✗ nodiscuss
Every team has its own logging format→The on-call rota has the same two people on it most weeks✗ nodiscuss
Every team has its own logging format→Post-mortems assign actions to people who were not in the room✗ nodiscuss
Every team has its own logging format→Post-mortem actions are written up and then never scheduled✗ nodiscuss
Post-mortem actions are written up and then never scheduled→Tests that fail intermittently are retried until green✗ nodiscuss
The on-call rota has the same two people on it most weeks→Error budgets exist on a slide and nowhere else✗ nodiscuss
Alerts fire so often that on-call mutes them→The on-call rota has the same two people on it most weeks✗ nodiscuss
One engineer knows how the payment path actually works→Tests that fail intermittently are retried until green✗ nodiscuss
Tests that fail intermittently are retried until green→Post-mortems assign actions to people who were not in the room✗ nodiscuss
Feature work always outranks reliability work in planning→Alerts fire so often that on-call mutes them✗ noin focus ↑ · close ✕
Customers report outages before monitoring does→Feature work always outranks reliability work in planning✗ nodiscuss
One engineer knows how the payment path actually works→Customers report outages before monitoring does✗ nodiscuss
Post-mortems assign actions to people who were not in the room→Customers report outages before monitoring does✗ nodiscuss
Error budgets exist on a slide and nowhere else→Feature work always outranks reliability work in planning✗ nodiscuss
Alerts fire so often that on-call mutes them→Post-mortems assign actions to people who were not in the room✗ nodiscuss
One engineer knows how the payment path actually works→Post-mortem actions are written up and then never scheduled✗ nodiscuss
The on-call rota has the same two people on it most weeks→One engineer knows how the payment path actually works✗ nodiscuss
Tests that fail intermittently are retried until green→One engineer knows how the payment path actually works✗ nodiscuss
The on-call rota has the same two people on it most weeks→Every team has its own logging format✗ nodiscuss
Alerts fire so often that on-call mutes them→Tests that fail intermittently are retried until green✗ nodiscuss
Every team has its own logging format→One engineer knows how the payment path actually works✗ nodiscuss
The on-call rota has the same two people on it most weeks→Post-mortems assign actions to people who were not in the room✗ nodiscuss
Post-mortems assign actions to people who were not in the room→Tests that fail intermittently are retried until green✗ nodiscuss
Every team has its own logging format→Alerts fire so often that on-call mutes them✗ nodiscuss
The on-call rota has the same two people on it most weeks→Feature work always outranks reliability work in planning✗ nodiscuss
Tests that fail intermittently are retried until green→Feature work always outranks reliability work in planning✗ nodiscuss
Tests that fail intermittently are retried until green→Post-mortem actions are written up and then never scheduled✗ nodiscuss
Error budgets exist on a slide and nowhere else→Alerts fire so often that on-call mutes them✗ nodiscuss
Error budgets exist on a slide and nowhere else→Post-mortem actions are written up and then never scheduled✗ nodiscuss
Post-mortems assign actions to people who were not in the room→Feature work always outranks reliability work in planning✗ nodiscuss
One engineer knows how the payment path actually works→Feature work always outranks reliability work in planning✗ nodiscuss
Error budgets exist on a slide and nowhere else→Every team has its own logging format✗ nodiscuss
Tests that fail intermittently are retried until green→Error budgets exist on a slide and nowhere else✗ nodiscuss
Post-mortem actions are written up and then never scheduled→Error budgets exist on a slide and nowhere else✗ nodiscuss
Post-mortem actions are written up and then never scheduled→Customers report outages before monitoring does✗ nodiscuss
Every team has its own logging format→Tests that fail intermittently are retried until green✗ nodiscuss
One engineer knows how the payment path actually works→Post-mortems assign actions to people who were not in the room✗ nodiscuss
Feature work always outranks reliability work in planning→One engineer knows how the payment path actually works✗ nodiscuss
Every team has its own logging format→Feature work always outranks reliability work in planning✗ nodiscuss
One engineer knows how the payment path actually works→Error budgets exist on a slide and nowhere else✗ nodiscuss
Alerts fire so often that on-call mutes them→Error budgets exist on a slide and nowhere else✗ nodiscuss
Post-mortems assign actions to people who were not in the room→One engineer knows how the payment path actually works✗ nodiscuss
Alerts fire so often that on-call mutes them→Feature work always outranks reliability work in planning✗ nodiscuss
One engineer knows how the payment path actually works→Every team has its own logging format✗ nodiscuss
Feature work always outranks reliability work in planning→The on-call rota has the same two people on it most weeks✗ nodiscuss
Post-mortem actions are written up and then never scheduled→Feature work always outranks reliability work in planning✗ nodiscuss
The same three services cause most of the pages→The service map in the wiki is two years old✗ nodiscuss
Rollbacks take longer than the outage they are meant to end→The same three services cause most of the pages✗ nodiscuss
Config lives in five places and drifts between them→Rollbacks take longer than the outage they are meant to end✗ nodiscuss
…→The staging environment does not resemble production✗ nodiscuss
The incident channel fills with people asking for status instead of giving it→Config lives in five places and drifts between them✗ nodiscuss
Reliability has no budget line of its own→Retries are unbounded, so a slow dependency becomes a flood✗ nodiscuss
The incident channel fills with people asking for status instead of giving it→Rollbacks take longer than the outage they are meant to end✗ nodiscuss
The same three services cause most of the pages→The incident channel fills with people asking for status instead of giving it✗ nodiscuss
The service map in the wiki is two years old→Retries are unbounded, so a slow dependency becomes a flood✗ nodiscuss
Config lives in five places and drifts between them→Feature flags are never cleaned up, so nobody knows which paths are live✗ nodiscuss
The incident channel fills with people asking for status instead of giving it→Feature flags are never cleaned up, so nobody knows which paths are live✗ nodiscuss
Retries are unbounded, so a slow dependency becomes a flood→The service map in the wiki is two years old✗ nodiscuss
…→Reliability has no budget line of its own✗ nodiscuss
The service map in the wiki is two years old→Rollbacks take longer than the outage they are meant to end✗ nodiscuss
Feature flags are never cleaned up, so nobody knows which paths are live→Reliability has no budget line of its own✗ nodiscuss
Feature flags are never cleaned up, so nobody knows which paths are live→The incident channel fills with people asking for status instead of giving it✗ nodiscuss
Rollbacks take longer than the outage they are meant to end→…✗ nodiscuss
The incident channel fills with people asking for status instead of giving it→Reliability has no budget line of its own✗ nodiscuss
Config lives in five places and drifts between them→The staging environment does not resemble production✗ nodiscuss
…→Config lives in five places and drifts between them✗ nodiscuss
Feature flags are never cleaned up, so nobody knows which paths are live→…✗ nodiscuss
Reliability has no budget line of its own→Config lives in five places and drifts between them✗ nodiscuss
The incident channel fills with people asking for status instead of giving it→Retries are unbounded, so a slow dependency becomes a flood✗ nodiscuss
Rollbacks take longer than the outage they are meant to end→The incident channel fills with people asking for status instead of giving it✗ nodiscuss
The same three services cause most of the pages→Reliability has no budget line of its own✗ nodiscuss
…→Feature flags are never cleaned up, so nobody knows which paths are live✗ nodiscuss
Feature flags are never cleaned up, so nobody knows which paths are live→The service map in the wiki is two years old✗ nodiscuss
Config lives in five places and drifts between them→Reliability has no budget line of its own✗ nodiscuss
The staging environment does not resemble production→Feature flags are never cleaned up, so nobody knows which paths are live✗ nodiscuss
Rollbacks take longer than the outage they are meant to end→Feature flags are never cleaned up, so nobody knows which paths are live✗ nodiscuss
Retries are unbounded, so a slow dependency becomes a flood→Config lives in five places and drifts between them✗ nodiscuss
The service map in the wiki is two years old→Reliability has no budget line of its own✗ nodiscuss
The service map in the wiki is two years old→Config lives in five places and drifts between them✗ nodiscuss
The staging environment does not resemble production→Config lives in five places and drifts between them✗ nodiscuss
Rollbacks take longer than the outage they are meant to end→The service map in the wiki is two years old✗ nodiscuss
The staging environment does not resemble production→The service map in the wiki is two years old✗ nodiscuss
The staging environment does not resemble production→Retries are unbounded, so a slow dependency becomes a flood✗ nodiscuss
…→The same three services cause most of the pages✗ nodiscuss
Retries are unbounded, so a slow dependency becomes a flood→Feature flags are never cleaned up, so nobody knows which paths are live✗ nodiscuss
…→The service map in the wiki is two years old✗ nodiscuss
Config lives in five places and drifts between them→Retries are unbounded, so a slow dependency becomes a flood✗ nodiscuss
The staging environment does not resemble production→…✗ nodiscuss
Reliability has no budget line of its own→…✗ nodiscuss
The same three services cause most of the pages→Config lives in five places and drifts between them✗ nodiscuss
…→The incident channel fills with people asking for status instead of giving it✗ nodiscuss
Feature flags are never cleaned up, so nobody knows which paths are live→The staging environment does not resemble production✗ nodiscuss
Retries are unbounded, so a slow dependency becomes a flood→The incident channel fills with people asking for status instead of giving it✗ nodiscuss
Config lives in five places and drifts between them→…✗ nodiscuss
The staging environment does not resemble production→The same three services cause most of the pages✗ nodiscuss
Reliability has no budget line of its own→Rollbacks take longer than the outage they are meant to end✗ nodiscuss
Config lives in five places and drifts between them→The same three services cause most of the pages✗ nodiscuss
The staging environment does not resemble production→The incident channel fills with people asking for status instead of giving it✗ nodiscuss
Rollbacks take longer than the outage they are meant to end→The staging environment does not resemble production✗ nodiscuss
…→Rollbacks take longer than the outage they are meant to end✗ nodiscuss
Config lives in five places and drifts between them→The service map in the wiki is two years old✗ nodiscuss
The same three services cause most of the pages→Retries are unbounded, so a slow dependency becomes a flood✗ nodiscuss
Rollbacks take longer than the outage they are meant to end→Config lives in five places and drifts between them✗ nodiscuss
Reliability has no budget line of its own→The service map in the wiki is two years old✗ nodiscuss
Retries are unbounded, so a slow dependency becomes a flood→…✗ nodiscuss
Feature flags are never cleaned up, so nobody knows which paths are live→Config lives in five places and drifts between them✗ nodiscuss
Config lives in five places and drifts between them→The incident channel fills with people asking for status instead of giving it✗ nodiscuss
Feature flags are never cleaned up, so nobody knows which paths are live→Retries are unbounded, so a slow dependency becomes a flood✗ nodiscuss
The service map in the wiki is two years old→…✗ nodiscuss
The incident channel fills with people asking for status instead of giving it→The same three services cause most of the pages✗ nodiscuss
Rollbacks take longer than the outage they are meant to end→Retries are unbounded, so a slow dependency becomes a flood✗ nodiscuss
Reliability has no budget line of its own→The same three services cause most of the pages✗ nodiscuss
Retries are unbounded, so a slow dependency becomes a flood→Rollbacks take longer than the outage they are meant to end✗ nodiscuss
The same three services cause most of the pages→Feature flags are never cleaned up, so nobody knows which paths are live✗ nodiscuss
The service map in the wiki is two years old→The incident channel fills with people asking for status instead of giving it✗ nodiscuss
The service map in the wiki is two years old→The same three services cause most of the pages✗ nodiscuss
The incident channel fills with people asking for status instead of giving it→…✗ nodiscuss
The staging environment does not resemble production→Reliability has no budget line of its own✗ nodiscuss
The incident channel fills with people asking for status instead of giving it→The staging environment does not resemble production✗ nodiscuss
The same three services cause most of the pages→Rollbacks take longer than the outage they are meant to end✗ nodiscuss
…→Retries are unbounded, so a slow dependency becomes a flood✗ nodiscuss
Retries are unbounded, so a slow dependency becomes a flood→Reliability has no budget line of its own✗ nodiscuss