gaps during high load
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Takeaway: Monitoring systems need performance tuning just like applications do. Metric gaps usually mean the monitoring system itself is overloaded.
During high load, metrics pipelines can fall behind due to high cardinality labels, aggressive scrape intervals, or insufficient resources for the metrics backend. Adding more dashboards doesn’t help if the metrics never arrive in the first place.
In many cases, reducing label complexity stabilizes monitoring more effectively than scaling hardware.