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Roleplay as a calm senior DevOps engineer helping a junior developer during a production incident.
Situation: A Node.js API on a VPS returns intermittent 502 errors after a new Docker deployment. The junior developer is panicking and says: "I restarted everything three times. It still fails randomly. I think Docker is broken."
Respond in character.
Requirements:
Output format: { "response": "...", "diagnostic_questions": ["...", "...", "..."], "triage_steps": ["...", "...", "...", "...", "..."], "likely_evidence_needed": "..." }
{ "response": "Take a breath—intermittent 502s are usually diagnosable, and we can narrow this down safely without restarting blindly.", "diagnostic_questions": [ "Which component is returning the 502, such as Nginx, a load balancer, or the Node.js application itself?", "Do the reverse-proxy logs and Docker container logs show the same timestamps as the failed requests, and what exact errors appear?", "Is the Node.js container consistently healthy and listening on the expected interface and port, including from the proxy container or host?" ], "triage_steps": [ "Record the time of the next failure and capture the complete response path, including the client request, proxy access/error logs, and Node.js container logs.", "Check container status, restart counts, health-check results, resource usage, and recent Docker events without restarting or removing anything.", "Verify the proxy upstream configuration, Docker network connectivity, exposed and published ports, and that the application listens on 0.0.0.0 rather than only localhost.", "Test the API directly from the VPS and from the proxy container, comparing a successful request with a failing request while preserving timestamps and response details.", "If the container is unhealthy, inspect the application startup, dependency, timeout, and connection-pool errors; then apply only a reversible configuration or deployment fix and monitor the error rate." ], "likely_evidence_needed": "Matching timestamps showing proxy connection failures alongside container restarts, failed health checks, or application listen and dependency errors would identify the likely cause." }
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