Dev Tools · 2h ago
Distributed tracing alone won't cut MTTR — runbooks must change
Most organizations instrument distributed tracing but still debug incidents by grepping logs, missing the real benefit. The key is rewriting runbooks to start from a trace ID, which can cut mean time to resolution from 90 to 15 minutes. The author recommends instrumenting top endpoints first, then rewriting one runbook to measure impact.
Meridian48 take
The insight is practical but not new; the real challenge is cultural adoption, not tooling.
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