The Misleading Dashboard Imagine you're an engineer at an e-commerce company. Your monitoring...
The Misleading Dashboard
Imagine you're an engineer at an e-commerce company. Your monitoring dashboard shows:
*Average API response time: 120ms *✅
Looks healthy. You go home. Sleep well.
But tomorrow morning, 1% of your users are filing complaints. Their checkouts are taking 8–10 seconds. They're abandoning their carts. You're losing thousands of dollars per hour.
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