A pod restarts every ten days, nobody reproduces the leak locally, and instant-use alerts stay green. How do you catch it?

Slow leaks hide inside restart cycles and percentage thresholds. Plot weeks of absolute memory against deploys, prove it with profiler deltas, and alert on predicted time-to-limit instead.

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Slow leaks hide inside restart cycles and percentage thresholds. Plot weeks of absolute memory against deploys, prove it with profiler deltas, and alert on predicted time-to-limit instead.

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