AI-driven Kubernetes incident response — seven alerts resolved

Seven Alerts, Three Bugs, One AI Debug Session: A Kubernetes Incident Report

TL;DR A routine cluster health check surfaced seven simultaneous issues. Most were transient — Longhorn self-healed its replica fault, Prometheus recovered behind it, a stale manually-created Job was deleted in one command, and a liveness probe blip fixed itself. The real work was dnd-backend, which had been in CrashLoopBackOff and turned out to contain three separate bugs layered on top of each other. The AI identified all three during a single debugging session, authored the fixes across three PRs, and the service came up 1/1 Running with all 18 database tables created on the first boot after the final merge. ...

March 4, 2026 · 8 min · zolty

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