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I haven't read the article because documentation is overhead but I'm guessing the real reason is because the guy who kept saying they needed to add more storage was repeatedly told to calm down and stop overreacting.
I used to do some freelance work years ago and I had a number of customers who operated assembly lines. I specialized in emergency database restoration, and the assembly line folks were my favorite customers. They know how much it costs them for every hour of downtime, and never balked at my rates and minimums.
The majority of the time the outages were due to failure to follow basic maintenance, and log files eating up storage space was a common culprit.
So yes, I wouldn't be surprised at all if the problem was something called out by the local IT, but were overruled for one reason or another.
Another classic symptom of poorly maintained software. Constant announcements of trivial nonsense, like
[INFO]: Sum(1, 1) - got result 2!filling up disks.I don't know if the systems you're talking about are like this, but it wouldn't surprise me!
You gotta forward that to Spunk so your logs ain't filling up the server generating them. Plus you can set up automated alerts for when the result stops being 2.
This message brought to you by Big Splunk.
I think you missed a letter...
I always make sure my logs are covered by Spunk.
spunking my logs is one of my favorite pass times
~~Big Splunk~~ Missed letter? You mean Big Spunk, right?