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Monitoring tools that do periodic work can themselves cause the latency outliers they were installed to diagnose.

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Subjectsdeveloper toolssoftware performance
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software performance Speed as a mark of quality: bloat, boot times, and software that got slower on hardware that got faster.

Mental modelSecond-order thinking

What Brendan Gregg actually said

  1. Brendan Gregg Computer performance engineer working on datacenter performance at OpenAI
    One performance anti-pattern is when a company, to debug one performance problem, installs a monitoring tool that periodically does work and causes application latency outliers.

    Where this was said

    ↗When to Hire a Computer Performance Engineering Team (2025) part 1 of 2brendangregg.com

    3 Aug 2025

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