Most outages I have ever seen were not surprises. They were someone skipping a simple check because they were chasing something shiny.
The basics are boring on purpose. Patience, consistency, the same checks done the same way. Reliability is not built in the heroic moment. It is built in the dull one, when you are tired, bored, annoyed, and ready to throw the laptop into the sea, and you do the check anyway.
Pick the one basic your team keeps deferring until things calm down. Do it this week, while things are not calm. That is the whole point.
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