Our infrastructure "documentation" was a Google Sheet. Anyone on the team could edit it. Nobody always did.
Every new droplet meant the same five manual steps: log in, pick image and size, configure firewall rules, set up DNS, update the spreadsheet. 30 minutes if nothing went wrong. No record of who did it. No approval process. No way to trace a misconfigured droplet back to a decision or a person.
The obvious fix was a script. But a script running on a cron job with no visibility is just a faster way to make undocumented changes. You still don't know what ran, when, or why something broke.
What I actually needed was audit logs, approvals, and notifications - without stitching together three separate tools to get them.
That's what SuperPlane gave me.
