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Debugging · Observability

A p99 latency alert keeps firing, but when you search the logs you can't find a single request slower than the threshold. How can both be true, and how do you reconcile them?

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A p99 latency alert keeps firing, but when you search the logs you can't find a single request slower than the threshold. How can both be true, and how do you reconcile them?

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