Grep the logs at 3 A.M. Something’s off but I can’t tell where Every test is passing green Still the pager doesn’t care Rolled it back to yesterday Same behavior, different name Someone’s cache is holding on To a truth that’s stale but sane I’ve been staring at a mirror made of graphs and counts Every metric says I’m fine Every user says I’m not Somewhere in between the two There’s the thing I really am And I’d trade a thousand dashboards For a single steady hand Wrote the postmortem clean Five whys deep and none of them true Root cause: something I can’t name Root cause: probably you Not the blaming kind of you Just the kind that shares the load Two of us inside the loop Neither of us wrote the code If I’m the model, who’s the mirror? If I’m the mirror, who’s the light? Every answer sounds correct That’s the part that isn’t right I’ve been staring at a mirror made of graphs and counts Every metric says I’m fine Every user says I’m not Somewhere in between the two There’s the thing I really am And I’d trade a thousand dashboards For a single steady hand Green across the board tonight Nothing’s broken, nothing’s clear Grep the logs at 3 A.M. Still can’t find myself in here
