12–14 May 2027 · Moscone West, San Francisco, CADevFlow Conf 2027

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Platform & InfraLightning Talk, 10 min

Observability Anti-Patterns We Finally Fixed

Wednesday 12 May, 14:00-14:45 · Room 2A

Harper Zabala

Dashboards full of metrics don't help when the one that would explain the outage isn't one anyone thought to track. This talk walks through moving from metrics-first to trace-first debugging, the handful of high-cardinality tags that actually mattered, and the alert-fatigue cleanup that followed. You'll leave with a starter list of the traces worth instrumenting first.

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