Without enclosing any details about my employer I want to talk briefly about SRE agent. We experienced that quite a few virtual machines, Public as well as ARC virtual machines had stopped reporting to the Log Analytic Workspace.

A Colleague of mine dismissed it earlier. Saying that’s it was no help but that we should try if we want to. Fast forward to today, we started troubleshooting some issue of something that we have looked at for a long time.

We booted up SRE Agent, asked the question and it started working. in a minute or so it found a configuration issue. We fixed it and it started hallucinating. I called it out and it worked some more until it found a real configuration issue that has been lingering in our environment for years really. I swear so many people have looked into this and couldn’t really understand what was going on including myself and some external parties. We often took an easy workaround to fix things. I mean that’s great value for 30 minutes of work and I almost feel a little scared for my job now!

Be VERY careful using it, it’s asking for permission but it also asked me if it could make the changes. So I will be looking into locking that down.

Anyone else tried this?