"Three people familiar with Peak Web’s operations say the [10 hour] outage gave the company time to deduce that the troublesome command was reducing the switche

"Three people familiar with Peak Web’s operations say the [10 hour] outage gave the company time to deduce that the troublesome command was reducing the switches’ available memory and causing them to crash." Cisco Nexus devices log alerts for low memory/resource situations to syslog, the defaults being 85% minor, 90% severe, and 95% critical. Were they not reading their logs?