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Today while doing a deploy my kubectl command were failing with

Error: Failed to fetch credentials for cluster "some-id" Unable to authenticate you

This was because by doctl token had expired

I wanted to borrow a commit from another branch

git cherry-pick -n some-commit
git reset

A key part of any modern infrastructure is good monitoring, even on my local desktop system I like to have monitoring in place so that if a problem gradually builds up I can trace where it started.

Unfortunately in this case the monitoring system actually caused the problem and Prometheus was using up all my system CPU and RAM.