Problem
You are the engineering manager for a managed cloud service. The team tracks many dashboards, but leadership wants a smaller set of metrics that clearly show service health, customer impact, and whether the team is moving in the right direction.
Question
How do you decide which operational metrics matter most for a service?
What matters
- Pick metrics that reflect customer experience, not just internal activity.
- Separate primary KPIs from supporting diagnostics.
- Balance leading indicators with lagging indicators.
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