DevOps as a Graph for Real-Time Troubleshooting

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Every DevOps engineer naturally keeps a knowledge graph of all the infrastructure and interconnected services — in their heads. This graph is fragmented and takes time to learn and document, as well as mental power to retain.

There are hidden relationships in all the data that can only be expressed through an engineer’s knowledge graph.

Having a DevOps graph that links all the infrastructure and microservices together allows teams to see hidden relationships.

The knowledge gap between senior engineers and less experienced engineers gets larger over time and makes real-time troubleshooting more challenging.

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