Uptime Defender
Fast-paced SRE game where you defend your infrastructure uptime! Handle incoming incidents by adding nodes, rotating logs, failing over, restarting pods, and scaling databases.
Category: SRE
What You Will Learn
- Practice incident response workflows
- Prioritize and triage production issues
- Learn about SLAs, SLOs, and error budgets
- Handle cascading failures
Topics covered: game, sre, interactive, real-time
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Uptime Defender
Fast-paced SRE game where you defend your infrastructure uptime! Handle incoming incidents by adding nodes, rotating logs, failing over, restarting pods, and scaling databases.
Uptime Defender
Defend your infrastructure's uptime against incoming incidents!
How to Play
Incidents will appear as alerts that need immediate action
Click the correct action button to resolve each incident
Resolve incidents quickly for bonus points and combo multipliers
Missing incidents or wrong actions will drain your uptime
Keep your uptime above 0% and survive for 60 seconds!
Incident Types
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