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How distributed system complexity turns humans into inefficient monitors

I spend forty minutes every morning checking dashboards for twelve different services to make sure nothing broke overnight and I realize I have become a human monitoring system for systems that are supposed to monitor themselves.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The proliferation of automated monitoring can paradoxically increase the human attention burden rather than reducing it.

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