Season 3: Welcome to Engineering · Episode 3 of 8
The Logs Are Trying to Tell You
You play: AI Engineering Intern
Included with Core programme and Certification prep
The situation
A moderation worker has slowed to a crawl and /tmp on its box is nearly full. Amara suspects a bad batch of jobs; Kabelo wants evidence before anyone restarts anything. The answer is in the logs — you just have to get it out.
What you'll learn
- LPI 3.1-3.3, 4.3: text filters (grep, sort, cut, uniq), redirection and pipes, simple shell helpers, archives (tar/gzip), storage (df/du), and processes.
- Collecting hardware, storage and network observations; reading the filesystem layout and Bash script structure; practice across five Linux Essentials topic areas, separate from an external exam outcome.
Who you work with
Kabelo Mokoena
Platform and DevOps Engineer
Amara Okafor
ML and Data Engineer
Scenes
- 1.Slow, and filling up
- 2.What's running, what's logged
- 3.One line of answer
- 4.The pattern behind the timeouts
- 5.What is this box?
- 6.Read the script
- 7.Linux Essentials practice checkpoint
What you leave with
You ranked the supplied error entries, preserved the log in an archive and used Python to report counts and earliest timestamps by creator. The results identify work for the on-call engineer to investigate; they do not establish root cause by themselves.
