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Question
Your metrics/monitoring backend is overloaded and slow, and you trace it to a recent change that added a high-cardinality label (like user id or request id) to a metric. How do you respond?
What a strong answer looks like
Stop the bleeding first (mitigate), then form hypotheses from real signals. Separate root cause from symptom, communicate status as you go, and close with what prevents a repeat.
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