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by bpicolo 2377 days ago
Monitoring and metrics don't matter at launch when your scale is at most a handful of b2b clients. For an API-as-a-service? Maybe. But humans will be quick to let you know if they hit issues. More importantly, if you're fulfilling an important function for them, the number of 9s in your uptime is the least of their concerns.

This is exactly the trap the OP fell into.