High response time vs baseline on sreproactive-vscode-39596 – mitigated via slot swap (2026-05-10)

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Summary

• Service: Azure App Service sreproactive-vscode-39596 (rg: rg-sre-proactive-demo)
• Alert context: Plan CPU Sev2 fired 2026-05-10T05:19:37Z. Correlated response time regression vs baseline.
• Action taken: Verified staging & production health; performed slot swap (staging -> production) at 2026-05-10T05:24:25.917Z UTC.
• Outcome: Post-swap average response time improved to 1.78 ms (well below baseline 47.43 ms).

Evidence

• Baseline (from baseline.txt):
  • BaselineResponseTime = 47.431782352941184 ms
  • BaselineTimestamp = 2026-01-22T16:00:55.2520697Z
• Current (pre-swap) App Insights query window:
  • Window: 2026-05-10T05:15:25Z .. 2026-05-10T05:20:25Z
  • KQL:
    requests
    | where timestamp between (datetime(2026-05-10T05:15:25Z) .. datetime(2026-05-10T05:20:25Z))
    | where cloud_RoleName <> '' and not (cloud_RoleName contains "staging")
    | summarize CurrentResponseTime = avg(duration) by cloud_RoleName
    | extend CurrentTimestamp = datetime(2026-05-10T05:20:25Z)
  • Result: cloud_RoleName=sreproactive-vscode-39596; CurrentResponseTime=88.03081666666667 ms; CurrentTimestamp=2026-05-10T05:20:25Z
  • Deviation vs baseline: +85.59%
• Post-swap verification query window:
  • Window: 2026-05-10T05:23:11Z .. 2026-05-10T05:25:11Z
  • KQL:
    requests
    | where timestamp between (datetime(2026-05-10T05:23:11Z) .. datetime(2026-05-10T05:25:11Z))
    | where cloud_RoleName <> '' and not (cloud_RoleName contains "staging")
    | summarize PostSwapResponseTime = avg(duration) by cloud_RoleName
    | extend CurrentTimestamp = datetime(2026-05-10T05:25:11Z)
  • Result: cloud_RoleName=sreproactive-vscode-39596; PostSwapResponseTime=1.7782 ms; CurrentTimestamp=2026-05-10T05:25:11Z

Health endpoints prior to swap

• Production: https://sreproactive-vscode-39596.azurewebsites.net/health (200 Healthy)
• Staging: https://sreproactive-vscode-39596-staging.azurewebsites.net/health (200 Healthy)

Artifacts

• Chart (PNG): response_time_evidence_20260510T052534Z.png
• Data (CSV): response_time_evidence_20260510T052534Z.csv

Next steps / Suspicions

• Investigate recent code/config changes in the previously active production slot that could explain the 85%+ latency increase.
• Review dependency latency (DB/external calls) around 05:15–05:20Z.
• Consider adding automated canary/slot soak validation to catch regressions pre-promotion.

Closing note

• Mitigation successful via slot swap; response time is better than baseline. Keeping this issue open for root-cause analysis.

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This issue was created by sre-agent-proactive-demo--73aee8f4
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