LinkedIn Draft — Insight (2026-01-10)
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Observability is a label strategy problem disguised as a tooling problem
You can’t debug what you can’t slice. Most “noisy dashboards” are really missing ownership labels, consistent dimensions, and SLI intent.
What I’ve seen go wrong:
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My rule:
Define SLIs first, then design labels that let you isolate (service, env, version, tenant) without blowing up cardinality.
If you want to go deeper: https://neeraja-portfolio-v1.vercel.app/projects/prometheus-scaling
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