The latest articles on Forem by Praveen Ballari (@praveenballari). https://forem.com/praveenballari https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F3914987%2F62bf9f56-f53a-4eb5-ae60-cc1c106dc24f.png https://forem.com/praveenballari en Praveen Ballari Thu, 07 May 2026 02:49:00 +0000 https://forem.com/praveenballari/i-recorded-a-demo-of-operatormesh-paste-logs-get-root-cause-in-seconds-a8k https://forem.com/praveenballari/i-recorded-a-demo-of-operatormesh-paste-logs-get-root-cause-in-seconds-a8k <h2> Quick update </h2> <p>I recorded a short demo showing exactly what <br> OperatorMesh does when you paste production logs.</p> <p>Watch the full flow:</p> <ul> <li>Logs pasted</li> <li>AI analyzes in real time</li> <li>Root cause + confidence score + ranked fixes</li> </ul> <h2> What you're seeing </h2> <ul> <li>Service: api-gateway</li> <li>Error: 503 upstream timeout after deploy</li> <li>Root cause identified in under 7 seconds</li> <li>Confidence: 87%</li> </ul> <h2> Try it yourself </h2> <p>Free, no signup, zero data stored.</p> <p>👉 operatormesh.com</p> <h2> 🎬 Live Demo Video </h2> <p><a href="https://youtu.be/_S4JeiqiPMU" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://youtu.be/_S4JeiqiPMU</a></p> <p>(Dev.to will auto-embed the video)</p> <p>Would love feedback from anyone<br> who handles </p> <p>production incidents — especially cases where <br> it gets it wrong.</p> sre devops Praveen Ballari Wed, 06 May 2026 12:51:33 +0000 https://forem.com/praveenballari/a-free-ai-incident-triage-tool-paste-logs-get-root-cause-in-seconds-13j https://forem.com/praveenballari/a-free-ai-incident-triage-tool-paste-logs-get-root-cause-in-seconds-13j <p>I built a free tool that compresses incident triage from 30–45 minutes down to seconds.</p> <p>OperatorMesh is privacy-first, stateless, and stupidly simple:</p> <p>Paste any error logs, stack trace, or alert</p> <ul> <li>Get probable root cause, confidence %, matched signals &amp; actionable fixes</li> <li>Nothing is stored, nothing is trained on</li> </ul> <p>Meant for SREs and on-call engineers who are exhausted from repeated manual debugging on "obvious in hindsight" issues.</p> <p>Live demo (no signup): <br> <a href="https://operatormesh.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://operatormesh.com</a></p> <p>Feedback very welcome </p> <p>Feedback very welcome.</p> devops sre incident kubernetes Praveen Ballari Wed, 06 May 2026 02:40:53 +0000 https://forem.com/praveenballari/i-built-a-free-incident-triage-tool-paste-logs-get-root-cause-in-seconds-2ml1 https://forem.com/praveenballari/i-built-a-free-incident-triage-tool-paste-logs-get-root-cause-in-seconds-2ml1 <h2> The Problem </h2> <p>Every production incident starts the same way:<br> alert fires → open 6 tabs → guess for 30-45 minutes.</p> <h2> What I Built </h2> <p>OperatorMesh — paste logs or errors, get:</p> <ul> <li>Probable root cause</li> <li>Confidence score </li> <li>Ranked fixes in seconds</li> </ul> <h2> Real Test Results </h2> <ul> <li>OOM crash → 82% confidence, heap analysis</li> <li>Deploy break → 93% confidence, exact mismatch found</li> <li>DB pool exhaustion → correctly identified</li> <li>K8s CrashLoopBackOff → identified</li> </ul> <h2> Try It </h2> <p>👉 operatormesh.com</p> <p>Free, no signup, zero data stored.</p> <p>I'm a solo founder — genuinely want feedback <br> on cases where it gets it wrong!</p> devops sre ai kubernetes