Two False-Positive Fixes, Same Root Cause

Mon, 11 May 2026 08:00:00 -0500

Two separate monitoring failures on the same day, same root cause. Both fixed by answering a single question: “Am I testing for health, or am I testing for perfect conditions?” The distinction matters because perfect conditions are temporary, and health is structural. And once you see the pattern once, you see it everywhere.

Context: production on a shared VPS

The Braves stack runs on Contabo (24 GiB RAM, 6 CPUs). Five Docker stacks share that hardware: Braves (frontend, backend, pybaseball), Plane (13 containers), Twenty (5 containers), Umami (3 containers), and ntfy (1 container). 25 containers total. Single ingress: Caddy reverse proxy. Single disk. When one stack’s load spikes, all five feel it.

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Two False-Positive Fixes, Same Root Cause

Context: production on a shared VPS