Mahin Raza — DevOps & Cloud Engineering BlogPractical engineering blogs on AWS, Kubernetes, Observability, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Incident Response, and Site Reliability Engineering by Mahin Raza.https://blog.mahinraza.online/en-usHow to Run Incident Command Safely with Combined Roles on a Small Teamhttps://blog.mahinraza.online/posts/2026-09-29-small-team-incident-command-roles/https://blog.mahinraza.online/posts/2026-09-29-small-team-incident-command-roles/Run incident command with one to four responders by making combined roles explicit, protecting operational attention, and splitting responsibilities before coordination fails.Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTSRE & Incident ResponseIncident ResponseIncident ManagementSREOn-CallMahin RazaHow to Alert on Seasonal Traffic with Baselines, SLOs, and Volume Guardshttps://blog.mahinraza.online/posts/2026-09-29-seasonal-traffic-baselines-slo-volume-alerting/https://blog.mahinraza.online/posts/2026-09-29-seasonal-traffic-baselines-slo-volume-alerting/Combine seasonal traffic diagnostics with SLO burn alerts and explicit low-volume policies without allowing baselines to learn an outage.Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTObservability & TracingMonitoringPrometheusSLOAlertingMahin RazaWhy Remote Parents Have `isRecording=false`: Sampling and Child Spanshttps://blog.mahinraza.online/posts/2026-09-29-remote-parent-isrecording-false-sampling/https://blog.mahinraza.online/posts/2026-09-29-remote-parent-isrecording-false-sampling/Distinguish a non-recording remote context from the recording and sampling decisions of the local child span.Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTObservability & TracingOpenTelemetrySamplingDistributed TracingPythonMahin RazaWhy Dashboard Aggregation Hides Regional Outages and How to Detect Themhttps://blog.mahinraza.online/posts/2026-09-29-regional-outages-hidden-by-dashboard-aggregation/https://blog.mahinraza.online/posts/2026-09-29-regional-outages-hidden-by-dashboard-aggregation/Preserve regional failure boundaries in SLIs and dashboards, detect missing regions explicitly, and avoid global aggregates that conceal outages.Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTObservability & TracingMonitoringPrometheusDashboardSLOMahin RazaHow to Alert on Queue Backlog Without Paging on Batch Spikes or Idle Consumershttps://blog.mahinraza.online/posts/2026-09-29-queue-backlog-batch-spikes-idle-consumers-alerting/https://blog.mahinraza.online/posts/2026-09-29-queue-backlog-batch-spikes-idle-consumers-alerting/Alert on queue age, deadlines and stalled progress while distinguishing normal batch accumulation from idle or failed consumers.Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTObservability & TracingMonitoringQueuePrometheusSQSMahin Raza