IntermediateCloud Security← All practice

Everything Is Healthy and Nothing Works

The report, in their words

At 00:00 UTC the mobile app stopped working for every user: SSL handshake failed. The web app shows a browser interstitial about an invalid certificate. Every dashboard is green — instances healthy, all load balancer targets healthy, application error rate zero, latency normal. The first thing the on-call engineer checked, an internal monitoring endpoint, returned 200 OK.

Pull evidence

One item at a time, and nothing here tells you which one matters. Deciding what is worth looking at is most of the diagnosis.

The certificate the public listener is serving
What the internal monitoring check actually probes
Renewal automation history
Who received the expiry warnings
Why the application error rate is zero
Load balancer target health
How the two client types behave
Internal service-to-service traffic
Recent changes

0 of 9 inspected. You are not required to open all of them — a real investigation is judged on how few you needed.

What is your diagnosis?

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