I hope another takeaway from this was to check at a lower level much sooner. At least the way it reads you spent quite some time suspecting your app being at fa

I hope another takeaway from this was to check at a lower level much sooner. At least the way it reads you spent quite some time suspecting your app being at fault or the tech stack goofing out. Htop should have shown high cpu usage from the db process right away, traffic was probably more than usual; access logs are always a good thing to check too.