How to Detect Operational Drift Before It Becomes an Incident
In my previous article , I explored operational conformance: how to evaluate whether observed evidence satisfies an operational specification. That gives us a useful point-in-time question: Does the system satisfy the specification right now? But production systems don't stay still. Traffic changes. Dependencies degrade. Certificates expire. Configuration is modified. Feature flags move. Data grows. People make manual changes. Agents take actions. Infrastructure is replaced. And so on....
In my previous article , I explored operational conformance: how to evaluate whether observed evidence satisfies an operational specification. That gives us a useful point-in-time question: Does the system satisfy the specification right now? But production systems don't stay still. Traffic changes. Dependencies degrade. Certificates expire. Configuration is modified. Feature flags move. Data grows. People make manual changes. Agents take actions. Infrastructure is replaced. And so on....