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You are the Operations Lead for an ongoing incident with one of your services. The service usually runs at around 70% capacity. You notice that one node is returning 5xx errors for all requests. There
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Submitted by devops_kid· Apr 18, 2026Managing a service incident
Question
You are the Operations Lead for an ongoing incident with one of your services. The service usually runs at around 70% capacity. You notice that one node is returning 5xx errors for all requests. There has also been a noticeable increase in support cases from customers. You need to remove the offending node from the load balancer pool so that you can isolate and investigate the node. You want to follow Google-recommended practices to manage the incident and reduce the impact on users. What should you do?
Options
- A
- Communicate your intent to the incident team.
- B
- Communicate your intent to the incident team.
- C
- Drain traffic from the unhealthy node and remove the node from service.
- D
- Drain traffic from the unhealthy node and remove the old node from service.
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Topics
#Incident Response#Communication#Service Reliability#Node Management