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Dashboard Green Nobody Asked

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"The system failed exactly the way the roadmap trained it to fail."

What this episode is really about

The Pretend: Everything is fine.

What Actually Happened: Dashboard Green Nobody Asked

Incident Type: Production Incident | Failure Pattern: green-dashboard blindness

Technical takeaway

Dashboard Green Nobody Asked

How it appears in real teams

Dashboard Green Nobody Asked

What teams should watch for

Detection Signals:

Alerts firing

Prevention Checklist:

[ ] Test thoroughly
[ ] Review code

Premortem Questions: What happens if this breaks?

Postmortem Lessons: We should have tested this.

Test thoroughly
Review code

Transcript

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The PM: The dashboard is green, so the release is healthy.
Glitch: It is green because nobody asked it about checkout.
The PM: But the uptime tile is beautiful!
Tiny CTO: A dashboard is not a doctor, it is a questionnaire.
Glitch: This one only asks if the server is awake.
The PM: Customers are not dashboards, then?
Tiny CTO: Correct, and they rarely fail silently.
Glitch: They fail loudly, in revenue.

Frequently Asked Questions

The Pretend

Everything is fine.

What Actually Happened

Dashboard Green Nobody Asked

Why Smart Teams Miss It

Because of delivery pressure.

TinyCTO Lesson

The chaos was predictable.

AI Summary

Monitoring only helps when it asks the questions that matter to users and systems.