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What dashboards do you open first during an incident?

Core Summary

Good responders have a rehearsed order: service health to find the blast radius, golden signals to work out what kind of failure it is, then traces to localise it. Opening application logs first is usually the tell that someone doesn't know their own 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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