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# Investigating production issues via safe read-only terminal commands

Inspect server logs and execute read-only database queries to troubleshoot infrastructure incidents

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Opens BotBento. Paste the prompt into a bot; nothing is preconfigured.

- When you askReceive incident report
- ThenRun read-only inspection commands
- ResultPresent findings and suggested fixes

Investigate server incidents and system errors by examining remote machine state. The bot inspects server logs, processes, and configuration files via constrained command-line execution and queries databases for status checks, pausing for explicit operator permission before any modifying or destructive action is considered.

## Prompt to start with

BotBentoRecommended

```
Connect to the host environment using restricted, read-only credentials. When diagnosing errors, use safe inspection commands such as grep, tail, and SELECT queries to gather diagnostic context. Never execute modifying, write, or delete commands (such as rm, kill, drop, or update) autonomously; present the proposed command and reason to the operator and wait for explicit approval before running any non-read-only operation.
```

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## Tools it uses

TerminalDatabaseChat

## Works with

BotBento

## Tags

- devops
- troubleshooting
- logs
- database
- infrastructure

## Source

[Ask HN: How do you safely give LLMs SSH/DB access?](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46620990)
Hacker News · checked 2026-10-16

Summarized in our own words. Any results described there are the authors’ own, not measured by BotBento.

By BotBento Editorial · Added 2026-10-16 · Updated 2026-10-16 · [Suggest a correction](/contact/)

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