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InSitu is an AI on-call agent that places read-only probes on running production code to capture exact variable state at the moment of failure, without a redeploy or restart.

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How to let engineers debug production when SSH access is not allowed

No SSH to production? A four-rung ladder for engineers: scoped telemetry, brokered JIT sessions, Kubernetes ephemeral containers, and read-only live variable capture.

Nov 2, 20268 min read
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Integration and API failures

Why root cause analysis takes so long across teams

Root cause analysis in software stalls at team boundaries: green dashboards, unowned seams, mismatched evidence, access gates. See the data and three fixes.

Nov 1, 202610 min read
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Coding agents in production

Should you let AI agents access production? The read-only boundary to require first

Should we let AI agents access production systems? Yes, behind a read-only boundary enforced below the model. What that boundary must include, with a staged trust model and checklist.

Oct 29, 20268 min read
How to debug production when you cannot store customer dataINSITUuseinsitu.com

Coding agents in production

How to debug production when you cannot store customer data

A practical ladder for debugging production under GDPR, PCI or HIPAA limits: aggregates, hashed references, scoped debug flags and redacted line-level captures.

Oct 28, 20268 min read
MTTD vs MTTR: a silent failure returns 200 OK with zero errors and zero alerts, so the detection clock never startsINSITUuseinsitu.com

AI SRE and incident tooling

MTTD vs MTTR when the failure never raises an error

MTTD measured from alerts hides silent failures that run for days. Learn how MTTD differs from MTTR, how to measure detection from true onset, and how to shrink both.

Oct 26, 20268 min read
Where backend teams lose hours in a production incidentINSITUuseinsitu.com

Where backend teams lose hours in a production incident

Mean time to resolution hides a lopsided split: detection is a tenth, investigation over half. See where backend incident hours go and how to audit yours.

Oct 24, 202610 min read