Configuration drift happens quietly. A manual fix here, a hotfix there, a deployment that misses part of the fleet. Over time the gap between documented baseline and actual state grows until it surfaces as a security gap, a compliance failure, or an outage. This new blog post covers the root causes and the practices that catch drift early, including baselining, continuous monitoring, and centralized logging. https://graylog.org/post/recognizing-and-mitigating-configuration-drift-risks/