https://falcao.org/tags/monitoring/Recent content in Monitoring on Danilo Falcão da SilvaHugoen-usFri, 29 May 2026 20:26:38 -0300https://falcao.org/posts/i-dont-want-more-dashboards-i-want-answers/Fri, 29 May 2026 20:26:38 -0300https://falcao.org/posts/i-dont-want-more-dashboards-i-want-answers/<p>It is 2:14 a.m. The page fires. Checkout error rate is up, the on-call channel is already three messages deep, and someone has dropped a link to a dashboard. I open it. Forty-two panels. Twelve of them are red, which tells me nothing, because nine of those twelve are red on a good day and nobody has touched the thresholds since 2022. I scroll. I find a latency graph that is clearly angry. It does not tell me why. It does not tell me what changed at 2:09. It does not tell me which of our seventeen downstream dependencies is the actual problem. It just confirms, in beautiful gradients, that we are having a bad night.</p>