Monitoring-Incident Correlation: Beyond Time Windows

Time alone is insufficient. The correlation patterns that link telemetry to incidents accurately.

Multi-signal correlation

Latency spike alone is weak; latency spike + error spike + saturation all together is strong.

Score correlations by signal count. Multi-signal correlations are more likely real.

Topology-aware

A latency spike in service A with no signal in service B is local. With signal in B, it is propagating.

Topology-aware correlation prioritises the upstream cause over downstream effects.

ML-based correlation

Some platforms learn correlation patterns from history. Useful for very large telemetry volumes.

Pay for it only if rule-based correlation has hit its limit.