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Notes on monitoring, incidents, and AI-native ops.

How we build Faultline and how we think about closing the incident loop.

Heartbeat timeline: a job pings each interval, a ping goes missing, and once the grace period also passes the check fails.

November 3, 2026 · 11 min read

How to monitor cron jobs and catch silent failures in production

Cron jobs and background workers can fail without generating an alert. Learn how heartbeat monitoring, execution tracking, and external monitoring help you detect silent failures before they become production incidents.

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Incident timeline from last good run to page, with the 33-minute detection gap between first failure and first alert highlighted.

November 1, 2026 · 11 min read

The postmortem process: a practical guide for small teams

When to write a postmortem, how to rebuild the timeline when monitoring missed it, and how to make sure the corrective actions actually ship.

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Faultline incident loop: a failing check opens an incident, an AI agent diagnoses it over MCP, you approve, the runbook runs, and Faultline verifies recovery.

June 25, 2026 · 7 min read

I gave my monitoring tool an MCP server, so Claude can run my on-call

Every monitor I tried watched a public HTTP endpoint, and none of them could let an AI agent actually fix an incident. So I built one that does, behind an approval gate.

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