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Monitor and Debug Bottlenecks

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How do you monitor and debug performance bottlenecks in a production backend environment?

Describe the observability signals, tools, and diagnostic workflow you would use. Explain how you would distinguish application, database, infrastructure, and dependency-related bottlenecks while minimizing production risk. Include how you would validate the fix and prevent recurrence.