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    Symptom Resolution Wizard

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    56 symptoms found

    "It works on my machine" syndrome
    works-on-my-machine

    Environment inconsistencies cause bugs that only appear in production.

    DORA impact
    CFR
    MTTR

    Access permissions are sprawled
    access-sprawl

    Too many people have too much access; no audit trail.

    DORA impact
    CFR

    Alert fatigue
    alert-fatigue

    Too many alerts, most are noise, real issues get missed.

    DORA impact
    MTTR

    API versioning nightmare
    api-versioning-nightmare

    Breaking changes and version conflicts plague integrations.

    DORA impact
    CFR
    LT

    Architecture is unknown
    architecture-unknown

    No one has a clear picture of how systems connect.

    DORA impact
    MTTR
    CFR

    Audit and compliance is painful
    audit-and-compliance-pain

    Evidence collection is manual and late; controls are bolted on.

    DORA impact
    LT
    DF

    Change aversion
    change-aversion

    Fear of change leads to infrequent, risky releases.

    DORA impact
    DF
    CFR

    CI pipeline is too slow
    slow-ci

    Build and test times discourage frequent integration.

    DORA impact
    LT
    DF

    Cloud costs are a surprise
    cloud-cost-surprise

    Unexpected bills; no visibility into what's driving costs.

    Compliance evidence is manual
    compliance-manual

    Collecting audit evidence requires manual work before reviews.

    DORA impact
    LT

    Database migrations are scary
    database-migrations-scary

    Schema changes are risky and require downtime.

    DORA impact
    DF
    CFR

    Dependency vulnerabilities piling up
    dependency-vulnerabilities

    Known vulnerabilities in dependencies are not addressed.

    DORA impact
    CFR

    Deployment queue / bottleneck
    deployment-queue

    Releases wait in queue because only certain people can deploy.

    DORA impact
    LT
    DF

    Deployments feel scary
    deployments-feel-scary

    Releases are high-stress, manual, and hard to roll back.

    DORA impact
    CFR
    MTTR
    DF

    Disaster recovery is untested
    no-disaster-recovery

    Backups exist but recovery has never been tested.

    DORA impact
    MTTR

    Documentation is outdated
    outdated-docs

    Docs exist but don't reflect reality; developers don't trust them.

    DORA impact
    LT
    MTTR

    Drowning in operational toil
    toil-overload

    Manual, repetitive work consumes engineering time.

    DORA impact
    DF
    MTTR

    End-to-end tests are painful
    e2e-test-pain

    E2E tests are slow, flaky, and hard to maintain.

    DORA impact
    LT
    CFR

    Environment drift
    environment-drift

    Dev, staging, and prod are all different; surprises in prod.

    DORA impact
    CFR
    MTTR

    Estimates are always wrong
    estimation-inaccurate

    Work takes 3x longer than estimated, planning is unreliable.

    DORA impact
    LT
    DF

    Feature flags are out of control
    feature-flags-chaos

    Old flags accumulate, nobody knows what's active.

    DORA impact
    CFR
    LT

    Flaky tests erode trust
    flaky-tests

    Unreliable tests are ignored, defeating their purpose.

    DORA impact
    LT
    CFR

    Flying blind in production
    no-observability

    Can't tell if things are working until users complain.

    DORA impact
    MTTR
    CFR

    Handoff hell between teams
    handoff-hell

    Work passes through multiple teams, each adding delay.

    DORA impact
    LT

    Hero culture
    hero-culture

    Success depends on individual heroes, not sustainable systems.

    DORA impact
    MTTR
    CFR

    Hotfixes bypass the process
    hotfixes-bypass-process

    Emergency fixes skip CI/CD, creating technical debt and risk.

    DORA impact
    CFR
    DF

    Incidents keep happening
    incidents-keep-happening

    Reliability issues recur; the same failure modes repeat.

    DORA impact
    MTTR
    CFR

    Lead time is too long
    lead-time-too-long

    Work gets stuck in queues; integration and testing happen late.

    DORA impact
    LT
    DF

    Legacy system nobody understands
    legacy-system-fear

    Critical system with no documentation or original authors.

    DORA impact
    LT
    CFR
    MTTR

    Low bus factor
    bus-factor

    If one person leaves, critical knowledge is lost.

    DORA impact
    LT
    MTTR

    Metrics collected but not used
    metrics-not-used

    Dashboards exist but don't drive decisions.

    Microservices chaos
    microservices-chaos

    Too many services; hard to debug across boundaries.

    DORA impact
    MTTR
    CFR

    Monolith is slowing us down
    monolith-pain

    Large codebase makes changes risky and slow.

    DORA impact
    LT
    CFR
    DF

    No confidence in changes
    no-test-coverage

    Low test coverage means changes feel risky.

    DORA impact
    CFR
    LT

    No continuous improvement
    no-retrospectives

    Same problems persist; no learning from mistakes.

    DORA impact
    CFR
    MTTR

    No SLOs defined
    no-slos

    No agreed-upon reliability targets; everything is equally important.

    DORA impact
    CFR
    MTTR

    On-call burnout
    on-call-burnout

    On-call rotation is exhausting and unsustainable.

    DORA impact
    MTTR

    Onboarding takes too long
    onboarding-slow

    New team members need months to become productive.

    DORA impact
    LT

    Post-mortems produce no action
    post-mortems-ignored

    Incident reviews happen but follow-up items are never completed.

    DORA impact
    CFR
    MTTR

    PR reviews are a bottleneck
    pr-review-bottleneck

    Pull requests sit unreviewed for days or get rubber-stamped.

    DORA impact
    LT

    Regressions escape to production
    regression-escapes

    Old bugs keep coming back; fixes break other things.

    DORA impact
    CFR

    Release train chaos
    release-train-chaos

    Coordinating releases across teams is painful and error-prone.

    DORA impact
    LT
    DF

    Rollback has never been tested
    rollback-untested

    Rollback procedures exist but are never practiced.

    DORA impact
    MTTR
    CFR

    Scaling is manual
    scaling-is-manual

    Capacity planning and scaling require human intervention.

    DORA impact
    MTTR

    Secrets in code
    secrets-in-code

    Credentials, API keys, or tokens found in repositories.

    DORA impact
    CFR

    Security is an afterthought
    security-as-afterthought

    Security reviews happen late, blocking releases.

    DORA impact
    LT
    CFR

    Silos between teams
    silos-between-teams

    Dev, Ops, Security don't collaborate; us vs. them mentality.

    DORA impact
    LT
    MTTR

    Snowflake servers
    snowflake-servers

    Each server is uniquely configured; replacement is risky.

    DORA impact
    MTTR
    CFR

    Tech debt is crushing velocity
    tech-debt-crushing

    Accumulated shortcuts making every change harder.

    DORA impact
    LT
    CFR

    Testing is a bottleneck
    testing-bottleneck

    Manual testing or QA handoffs slow down delivery.

    DORA impact
    LT
    CFR

    Too many meetings
    meeting-overload

    Engineers spend more time in meetings than coding.

    DORA impact
    LT

    Too much work in progress
    work-in-progress-overload

    Teams juggle many items, nothing gets finished.

    DORA impact
    LT
    DF

    Tool sprawl / integration chaos
    too-many-tools

    Too many disconnected tools creating friction.

    DORA impact
    LT

    Tribal knowledge dependency
    tribal-knowledge

    Critical knowledge exists only in people's heads, not documented.

    DORA impact
    LT
    MTTR

    Unclear priorities
    unclear-priorities

    Everything is "high priority," so nothing is.

    DORA impact
    LT
    DF

    Unclear service ownership
    unclear-ownership

    Nobody knows who owns what, causing delays and finger-pointing.

    DORA impact
    MTTR
    LT