Dan Luu 12/6/2021

Some latency measurement pitfalls

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This article, based on a lightning talk from a Twitter engineer, explores historical pitfalls in measuring service latency. It highlights issues like opaque, uninstrumented latency in the network stack, lack of cluster-wide aggregation, and minutely resolution data. The author explains why server-side metrics often differ from client-observed latency and the challenges this creates for accurate monitoring and alerting.

Some latency measurement pitfalls

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