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Memory Leak

  • Nov 09, 2019
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– An undetected memory leak causes periodic system crashes at scale, this video illustrates.
– Application monitoring systems log the outage as a ticket for an application support automation bot.
– Automated log analysis correlates crashes with the release of a new version.
– The Infrastructure-As-Code system serves as the source-of-truth for this correlation.

A new version of an application gets deployed to production via automated CI / CD pipeline, but gets hit with an undetected memory leak when used at scale. So the system crashes periodically.

The outage, as detected by the application monitoring systems, is logged as a ticket and an application support automation bot picks up the ticket. Via automated log analysis and source-of-truth as recorded in the Infrastructure-As-Code system, it is able to correlate the crashes with the release of the new version.