Living documentation for real systems
stacksage reads your real config, writes the documentation, and tells you the moment it drifts — so what's written is always what's running.
Why it matters
Every stalled migration, failed audit and midnight outage traces back to the same thing: the system changed, and the only person who knew walked out the door.
Six weeks after the company’s longest-tenured engineer walked out, teams describe core services as “a black box nobody dares touch.”
Cutover paused indefinitely after operators discovered the documented procedure no longer matched a single production host.
“He was the documentation,” one director conceded. The board has ordered an emergency knowledge-transfer insiders are calling “archaeology.”
A four-hour outage stretched past nineteen after the runbook pointed to a server decommissioned last spring.
Assessors flagged forty controls where the written procedure and the live system had quietly diverged — none of it caught until the review.
With no current diagram of the network, remaining staff say they are “rebuilding the map while the plane is in the air.”
Onboarding now takes months as newcomers reverse-engineer tribal knowledge that was never written down.
Changes → runbook
As you make the changes — enabling SSL on Apache, tuning a cluster, wiring a failover — stacksage captures each step and screenshot into a living runbook. You do the work once; the documentation is the byproduct.
Give your systems documentation that's grounded, living, and governed.