Situation
Needed To Wire All Of Akamai’s Data Into An Existing Grafana On GKE. Split Into Two Dashboards: CDN Data Rode On A Plugin That Was Already There, And WAF/Bot Logs Went Through A Small Proxy I Wrote Myself, Because The Only Grafana Plugin That Speaks Akamai’s SIEM API Is A Paid Third-Party One. Didn’t Want To Pay For It. (Cheapskate.)
Both pieces hit the same kind of bug: something that looks fixed, deploys clean, and still doesn’t work — with nothing useful in the logs to explain why.