The most valuable part of building my AI-SOC platform wasn't Elasticsearch. It wasn't FastAPI. It wasn't even the detection engine. It was troubleshooting. During development, I encountered: • Infrastructure instability • VPS migration challenges (very bad experience with Hetzner provider for VPS) • Authentication failures • Elasticsearch index mismatches • Event parsing issues • Database persistence problems At one point, everything appeared healthy: API returned 200 OK. Det