Reading latency without panic
How to treat latency spikes as signals in a tech analysis brief instead of alarms that freeze the room.
Start with the question the spike answers. A brief that only says “it was slow” forces leadership to invent meaning.
Pair the number with the path you measured and the window you used. Without that, the next analyst restarts from zero.
If the spike does not change a decision, demote it to a monitoring note and keep the brief short.
