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Follow the specialized guides to assess whether there's an issue or misconfiguration. If observed shortcomings align with Falco's imperfection tolerations, remember that no software is perfect or bug-free.

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Falco Is Not Starting Up

Follow this guide to identify whether an issue or misconfiguration is causing Falco to crash or preventing it from starting up

Falco Is Dropping Syscalls Events

Follow this guide to determine if there is a possibility of addressing the issue on busy servers where Falco may be dropping events or if the server load is simply too high to resolve the issue

Missing Fields in Falco Logs

Follow this guide to identify issues or misconfigurations that may be causing missing fields in Falco rules outputs

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