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  1. OBSERVABILITY SERIES · 046 Sept 2026·6 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
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