
Marie Cruz
Senior Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs; software tester and co-author of "Contract Testing in Action"
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Jun 23, 2026
Performance Testing, Observability, and K6 with Marie Cruz
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David BurnsHOST
What are the hidden metrics? I can't think of a better term, but the hidden metrics or behaviors that teams should look for before it's too late?

Marie CruzGUEST
But one thing that I guess a lot of people maybe don't know is there is this idea of tail latency, which is it basically refers to your small percentage of requests that basically take significantly longer you know, longer to process for a small amount of users.

Marie CruzGUEST
You know, if you look at the average, it might show that your application is healthy, but then pay latency.
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David BurnsHOST
And so When people are using these, what are the critical items that people need to be looking for when using these from logs, metrics, traces in their systems? Because it's cool to set these things up and then they go, cool, what next?