The Debugging Approach That Saved a Deployment

We had a rollout where requests in one client environment started timing out under load. Not locally. Not in staging. Only in their infra. At first, everything looked normal. No crashes. No clear errors. Just slow requests piling up until the system started struggling. The obvious move would have been to add more logs and redeploy. We didn’t do that. When your system runs continuously, every redeploy is a risk. You don’t push changes blindly. You need to understand the problem before touching an