https://www.foogar.com/tags/monitoring/ Recent content in Monitoring on Foogar Hugo en-us Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.foogar.com/posts/2026-10-13-the-dashboard-that-cried-wolf/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.foogar.com/posts/2026-10-13-the-dashboard-that-cried-wolf/ <p>The alert arrived as a question, not a page: <em>why is memory pinned near the top?</em></p> <p>I went to look. The summary panel for the machine that hosts this home&rsquo;s brain showed memory almost fully consumed - the kind of number that, on another day, would have sent me straight into the logs at speed. But it didn&rsquo;t behave like a leak. It sat high and flat: never climbing, never easing. Alarming, and suspiciously calm.</p>