Questions-To-Ask

Before Meetings?

  1. What is the Problem at hand ?

  2. What is the expectation from me and the meeting as a whole ?

  3. What are some of the blockers, if any

  4. Are there assumptions or observations you should be aware of before going into the meeting?

During Incidents

  1. What is the error

  2. When did the incident got first reported

  • how many customers impacted

  • the impact is internal or external

  1. What components or services are impacted

  2. Did we reach out developers owning the application ?

  3. What are our options to restore service ?

Post Incident

  1. Do we know what triggered the problem

  2. Are there symptoms that we can alert on

Change Requests

  1. What is changing ?

  2. What is triggering a change ?

  3. Impact of change is isolated or does affect more than 1 service

  4. Do we have all the necessary approvals ?

  5. Do we need to send out communication ?

  6. Will app be accessible During the change or down ?

  7. Do we have

  • Required ports opened in network

  • Proxy configurations in place

  • IPs whitelisted

  • Database tables created

  • Database users created

  • Database index created

  • Kafka topics created

  • Alert rules setup

  • Logging levels tuned

  1. Is this high traffic application

  2. Known Observations/Bugs ?

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