Week 21 · 2026
Engineering Operations
May 18 – 24
Headlines of the Week
43 PRs merged across 5 contributors ·
Review rate steady at 81% ·
Lead time spike to 16d — long-branch pattern
6 org deploys · 575 monitored hosts · 1 active alert (RDS storage)
Team Activity — W21
May 18 – 24 · live from Swarmia · DORA metrics are org-wide
PRs Merged
43
5 contributors · Swarmia
Review Rate
81%
PRs with ≥1 review
Cycle Time
9.3d
open → merge · median
Deploy Freq
0.86/d
org-wide · 6 deploys
Change Lead Time
16d
org-wide · Swarmia
Change Failure Rate
33%
org-wide · Swarmia
66 PRs in progress
18.8h to first review
MTTR 45h · org-wide
Lead time and cycle time spike suggests long-lived feature branches merged this week — worth reviewing WIP age on the 66 in-progress PRs.
The Platform, Watched
Live from Datadog · as of 2026-05-24
Active Hosts
575
Datadog infra agents
Services Monitored
9
infra monitoring · 1 with APM
Deploys This Week
6
org-wide · Swarmia
Active Alert
[AWS] RDS Storage Utilization High
One RDS instance >90% storage consumed. Action: expand volume or purge old data before writes fail.
APM Coverage
Distributed tracing enabled on Backend only.
8 other services (Redis, Tradebot, old-backend, ElastiCache, RDS, SSM, writestuff, old-tradeit) covered by infra metrics only.
Monitor Health
RDS Storage
Docker Daemon
Redis CPU
System Load
Host CPU
NowPayments Fraud
Container Uptime
Disk Usage
RDS Connections
Network Rx
RDS CPU
10 of 11 sampled monitors green · 1 alert requires storage action this week
Week 21 · Closing Stat
The Number of the Week
575
Active Hosts Under Datadog Watch
575 EC2 instances (ARM/Graviton, eu-west-1) reporting live to Datadog — every container, every process, every disk tick — and the team is still shipping 43 PRs a week on top of it.
tradeit.gg · Engineering Ops · W21 2026
