Daily pre-shift check

A 5-minute check performed at the start of each shift.

How to use

Run each command. Note any unexpected output. Investigate anything unusual before the shift progresses.

cluster-health: Check that the cluster has quorum and Ceph is HEALTH_OK (if in use).
backup-status: Verify backups ran last night without errors.
alerts-inbox: Clear or acknowledge any new alerts in your alerting system.
capacity-warning: Check capacity utilisation; alert if > 80%.
node-health: Verify all cluster nodes are reachable.
ongoing-incidents: Review any active incident tickets.

If anything fails, document in the incident tracker. Don’t fix things immediately unless they are user-impacting.

Info5 items

Check cluster status (pvecm status, ceph -s)

pvecm status && ceph -s 2>/dev/null || echo "no ceph"

Verify last night backups completed

pvesh get /cluster/tasks --output-format json | jq -r ".data[] | select(.type==\"vzdump\") | \\"\\(.id) \\(.status)\\" " | head -10

Clear or acknowledge alerts from the past shift

Verify all nodes are reachable (pvecm nodes)

Review ongoing incident tickets