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- **Single-Cause Tunnel Vision**: Focusing on one causal factor while ignoring contributing conditions
enabling factors
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- **Missing Evidence Trail**: Drawing conclusions without citing specific logs
metrics
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- Identify log gaps caused by retention policies
sampling
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- Review circuit breaker states
retry storms
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- **Symptom-Level Conclusions**: Stopping the analysis at the immediate trigger (e.g.
the server crashed) without investigating why safeguards failed to prevent or detect the failure
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- Apply structured log queries with timestamp ranges
correlation IDs
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- Check APM tools for error rate spikes
latency changes
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- Use centralized logging (ELK Stack
Splunk
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- Leverage distributed tracing (Jaeger
Zipkin
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- Specify clear owners
timelines
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- Use Prometheus
Grafana
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- Treat human error as a symptom of systemic issues
not the root cause itself
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Coding & Debugging
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- Consider multiple root cause categories: code
configuration
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- Focus on systems
processes
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- [ ] Each remediation action has verification steps
owners
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- Apply the five whys technique to reach systemic causes
not surface symptoms
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- Cite specific file paths
log identifiers
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- [ ] Corrective actions address root cause
contributing factors
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- [ ] Impact scope is fully quantified across users
services
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- [ ] All findings are grounded in concrete evidence (logs
metrics
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After completing the root cause analysis report
verify:
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- Clear
specific statement of root cause
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Coding & Debugging
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- Specific code
configuration
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- Gather system-level logs (OS
web server
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