What are your non-negotiables before trusting any automation around servers?
For sysadmins/SREs: what are your hard requirements before you let any tool assist with real troubleshooting?
I don’t mean full autopilot. I mean something that can inspect logs, services, disk, packages, configs, and propose or run actions with approval.
Would auditability matter more than speed? Would you want every command logged? Should destructive actions always require fresh confirmation?
I’m especially interested in horror stories: what kind of “helpful automation” caused more damage than it fixed?
What would a tool need to do to earn even limited trust from you?