Most often the issues that take down a site are with core services like network routing, DNS and service discovery. Consul gets mentioned because it’s in that b

Most often the issues that take down a site are with core services like network routing, DNS and service discovery. Consul gets mentioned because it’s in that business and isn’t a standard so it gets called out specifically. Zookeeper, HAProxy and various cluster managers also get slagged for this stuff and yeah, sometimes it’s their fault but that’s what it means to be in that business.