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Finish: you kept Aetherion flying

MicroHack complete

You onboarded a read-only agent, investigated and recovered live incidents under approval, grounded the agent in Aetherion's runbooks, engineered a specialist subagent and reusable skill, let it recover autonomously within guardrails, commanded a Tier-0 major incident, and briefed leadership. That's the full Reactive → Assisted → Autonomous journey with the Azure SRE Agent.

What you can now do

  • Detect & investigate incidents read-only, with evidence-backed root cause
  • Recover safely under approval or bounded autonomy
  • Ground & extend the agent with runbooks, subagents and skills
  • Close the loop: RCA handover and a leadership briefing

What changed in your estate

Every incident today was an ordinary change made badly. In a real environment, these are the six you'd have to undo, and the list is the change-management lesson in miniature:

Incident What changed How it was undone
Check-in slowdown A "cache migration" repointed booking at a cache endpoint that answers nothing, so every read waited out its timeout before falling back to the database Remove the override so it resolves the real cache again
Flight board dark A release pinned flight-ops to an image tag that was never published kubectl rollout undo
Crew scheduling The index behind the crew duty lookup went missing, so every request scanned the whole roster table Rebuild the index under approval
Baggage errors A canary revision served the wrong API surface behind the same Service Remove the bad revision
Check-in, under peak load A cost optimisation cut booking's CPU limit and pinned its replica count, so the autoscaler couldn't absorb the surge Restore the limit and the autoscaling ceiling
API front door A backend override was published to the APIM product policy Restore the default policy

Tear down the environment

Do this to stop Azure charges

./scripts/99-teardown.ps1

Pick your microhack from the list; it removes the resource group and its load-generator pair, the single biggest cost saver. See Teardown for the reset-vs-delete options.

Where to go next


Want another run? Reopen Challenge 1 and use the Reset progress link on the progress bar to start fresh.