Illustrative incident

Signal to approved fix,
with the evidence attached.

1. 00:00

   checkout-api · error rate 5.2%

   Breached 1% for 3m. Paged.

2. 00:14

   Correlated 4 signals

   Logs, traces, pod events, deploy at 23:58.

3. 00:51

   Root cause

   Connection pool exhausted after replica scale-down.

4. 01:47

   Fix proposed · awaiting approval

   bump_hpa checkout-api 3 → 6. Dry-run clean.

Remediation is off by default. Nothing reaches a cluster without an approval and a dry-run.