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Learning Loop - Observability & Production Incidents | Aporeon

Observability & Production Incidents

Learning Loop

SLO alerts, dashboards, release correlation, mitigation choices, post-incident reviews, runbooks, and capacity signals.

7 drillsPractice one at a timeOrdered pathConcept questionComparison question

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Alerts and SLOs

Explains alert design based on user-impact symptoms, SLOs, burn rate, thresholds, and avoiding noisy cause-only alerts.

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1Alerts and SLOsRecommended startExplains alert design based on user-impact symptoms, SLOs, burn rate, thresholds, and avoiding noisy cause-only alerts.Concept questionMedium~7 min.NETApplication InsightsASP.NET CorePractice

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7 drillsOne at a time

1Alerts and SLOsUp next / Medium / ~7 min
2API DashboardEasy / ~5 min
3Release CorrelationMedium / ~7 min

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API DashboardExplains dashboard panels that help an API owner see user impact, dependency health, releases, and current incidents.Concept questionEasy~5 min.NETApplication InsightsASP.NET Core

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3Release CorrelationExplains deployment markers, version telemetry, feature-flag state, commit traceability, and incident diagnosis after releases.Concept questionMedium~7 min.NETApplication InsightsASP.NET CorePractice

4Mitigation ChoiceCompares rollback, roll-forward, feature kill switches, scaling, and degraded mode as incident mitigations.Comparison questionMedium~7 min.NETApplication InsightsASP.NET CorePractice

5Post-Incident ReviewExplains post-incident review, root cause, contributing factors, action items, tests, alerts, runbooks, and ownership.Concept questionMedium~7 min.NETApplication InsightsASP.NET CorePractice

6RunbooksExplains what belongs in runbooks, how on-call handoff preserves context, and how operational docs stay useful.Concept questionEasy~5 min.NETApplication InsightsASP.NET CorePractice

7BackpressureExplains saturation signals and how systems shed, queue, throttle, or degrade before cascading failure.Concept questionHard~9 min.NETApplication InsightsASP.NET CorePractice

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Mitigation Choice

Medium / ~7 min

5Post-Incident ReviewMedium / ~7 min

6RunbooksEasy / ~5 min

7BackpressureHard / ~9 min