Well hang on! Your question was why was the time to detect so high and you specifically mentioned 24x7 SRE so I thought that’s what we were talking about ;) An

Well hang on! Your question was why was the time to detect so high and you specifically mentioned 24x7 SRE so I thought that’s what we were talking about ;) And I do think the answer is that monitoring is easy but good monitoring takes a whole lot of work. Devops teams tend to get to sufficient observability where a SRE team should be dedicating its time to engineering great observability because the SRE team is not being pushed by product to deliver features. A functional org will protect SRE teams from that pressure, a great one will allow the SRE team to apply counter-pressure from the reliability and non-functional perspective to the product perspective. This equilibrium is ideal because it allows speed but keeps a tight leash on tech debt by developing rigor around what is too fast or too many errors or whatever your relevant metrics are.