A Slowdown With No Obvious Cause A server doesn’t need a CPU spike or a memory leak to grind to a halt. Sometimes, the real problem is something much simpler: a log file that quietly grew until there was nowhere left to write. That’s exactly what happened in a recent production incident, and it’s a pattern support teams run into more often than most dashboards would suggest. The issue first came to our attention when users reported that the application had become unusually slow. Page loads were dragging, scheduled jobs were taking far longer than usual, and even SSH sessions felt sluggish. None of it pointed to an obvious culprit; CPU usage sat comfortably under 30 per cent, and memory …
