Synced and Healthy: The Six-Day Outage Every Dashboard Reported as Fine

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 03:00:00 +0530

For six days grafana.karthikhegde.in returned 502.

For those same six days ArgoCD reported the monitoring application as Synced and Healthy. Kubernetes reported the Grafana pod as Running, 1/1, zero restarts. And the fix — the correct fix, the one that would have resolved this in about sixty seconds — had been committed to the repository three weeks earlier.

None of those three facts is a bug on its own. Together they describe a platform that had no mechanism left to tell me it was broken.

Kubernetes on Karthik B Hegde | DevOps Engineer

Synced and Healthy: The Six-Day Outage Every Dashboard Reported as Fine