99.99% Uptime, 5% Rage: How Synthetic Monitoring Lets You Lie to Yourself

Written by aakankshamitra | Published 2025/09/25
Tech Story Tags: programming | observability | monitoring-stacks | synthetic-monitoring | 99.99percent-uptime | json | tail-latency-spikes | edge-nodes

TLDRDashboards that show 99.99% uptime often hide the truth. Synthetic monitoring passes happy paths while users quietly fail. Real resilience comes from monitoring experiences, not endpoints, and building observability that exposes ugly truths instead of comfort metrics.via the TL;DR App
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Written by aakankshamitra | Engineer obsessed with turning complex systems into simple experiences. Async thinker, mentor, and occasional slide hacker.
Published by HackerNoon on 2025/09/25
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