Large uptimes - a wonderful problem to have
When it comes to the list of problems ‘our uptimes are too high’ isn’t normally in the top five that sysadmins dread.
While having a lengthy uptime used to be a boasting point it can also hide technical issues - such as kernel upgrades you’ve applied but not enabled (unless you’re running something special like ksplice), confidence gaps in high availability systems (when was the last time you did a fail over?
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