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by electric_sheep 1200 days ago
I remember listening to Charity Majors[1] talk about this on a podcast -- in the case of Honeycomb they have a "dogfood" cluster than monitors production, and a "kibble" cluster that monitors the dogfood.

Cute, but it gets the point across: watchmen for the watchmen, with each layer slightly less mission-critical than the last.

[1] https://changelog.com/shipit/11#transcript-98