On-Call Incident Prize Wheel

When you're on-call and try to guess what will break in your search today ingestion rate too high split brain on restart disk is full shard split caused OOM cluster state is borked rolling restart on a yellow cluster

A woman points to a colorful prize wheel labeled with common search-cluster failures, including high ingestion rate, split brain, full disk, OOM, and a broken cluster state. The joke is that being on-call feels like spinning randomly to predict which infrastructure problem will happen next, so this meme is used by engineers reacting to operational uncertainty and incident fatigue.

• @profunctor_io / 10444 2024-10-10