OBSERVABILITY SERIES · 04·6 min read
A metric can be accurate and still be history
After a maintenance window my not-ready panel went red over a cluster where nothing was wrong. It was counting Succeeded pods still held in the API. The fix is an exclusion filtered by value for readiness and a separate freshness check for backups, and both expressions now have unit tests.
- observability
- prometheus
- grafana
- alerting
- monitoring