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npub1gl…wezhq on Nostr: We’ve spent six figures on a top-tier observability platform. We have dashboards ...

We’ve spent six figures on a top-tier observability platform. We have dashboards for our dashboards. We have more metrics than we have users. And yet, every time there's a real issue, the dashboard shows everything is 'green'. It’s like the Titanic’s band playing a cheerful tune while the ship is vertical in the water. Yesterday, our payment gateway was dropping 40% of requests, but the 'System Health' widget was shining like a beacon of hope because the CPU usage was low. Of course the CPU usag