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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—we will narrow this down methodically, and intermittent 502s usually leave clear evidence in the proxy and application logs.", "diagnostic_questions": [ "Which component is returning the 502, and what do the reverse-proxy logs show for a failed request?", "During a failure, is the Node.js container running and healthy, and can the proxy reach its configured host and port?", "What changed in the deployment, and do container logs, restart counts, or host CPU and memory usage correlate with the failures?" ], "triage_steps": [ "Record the exact time of the next 502 and preserve the request path, response headers, and any request or correlation ID.", "Inspect reverse-proxy error logs and Node.js container logs for that same timestamp, looking for connection refusals, timeouts, crashes, or failed health checks.", "Check container status, restart counts, health-check results, exposed ports, network membership, and the proxy's upstream configuration without changing anything yet.", "Test the API locally from the VPS and from the proxy environment using a safe read-only endpoint, comparing successful and failed requests.", "Check CPU, memory, disk space, and file-descriptor usage, then compare the deployment configuration and environment variables with the previous known-good version and roll back only through the normal, documented release process if evidence points to the new release." ], "likely_evidence_needed": "Correlated proxy and application logs showing upstream connection failures, timeouts, or container restarts at the exact times of the 502s would confirm an intermittent upstream availability problem." }
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