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Daily Log Analysis: Hunting for Configuration Errors

FinOps for Scalable Infrastructure

The Discipline of FinOps

In this lesson, you will analyze logs from our lab.

Common Errors

  • Retries: An app failing to connect to a DB might create thousands of expensive log lines.
  • VPC Flow Logs: High traffic between AZs revealed in logs.

The Point System

If you find the configuration error that caused the '$5 spike' yesterday, you get 100 points.