Code RoomMonitoring system itself down
HardPrep Room Coding #3053

Monitoring system itself down

On-callReliability & on-callSenior~20 min

Your monitoring/alerting system itself is down or degraded — you've lost visibility into the rest of the platform. How do you handle flying blind?

What a strong answer looks like

Stop the bleeding first (mitigate), then form hypotheses from real signals. Separate root cause from symptom, communicate status as you go, and close with what prevents a repeat.

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