The Performance Chain

One thing I get involved in a lot at clients is improving monitoring and observability of performance issues. Teams want to improve their understanding of where they sit with perf before they decide on work, priorities, and user stories. That's great and all makes a lot of sense - to do otherwise would be to work on gut instinct and guesses, which, as we know, is premature optimization.However, there is one common mistake I see at almost every one of my clients when it comes to performance monitoring: starting with low-level metrics.What are some low-level metrics I see prioritized too soon? They may even sound high-level to you:.