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What dashboards do you open first during an incident?
#Observability#Incident Response#Monitoring#SRE
Core Summary
The best incident responders have a mental model of what dashboards show what, and they open them in a specific order: first the health dashboard to understand scope, then the golden signals dashboard to see what's broken, then the distributed trace dashboard to narrow the blast radius. Jumping straight to application logs is a symptom of not knowing your observability stack.
Hints
Hint 1: Start broad, then narrow to the blast radius
Hint 2: You already have a mental checklist before the incident starts
Hint 3: Metrics beat logs for incident triage
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