It’s when debugging (understanding what went wrong) takes longer than fixing because the information is in a bunch of different places: Sentry, Stripe, LogRocket and several APM tools.
So engineers spend hours playing detective: copying request IDs between tools, matching timestamps, manually piecing together what happened.
Most teams lose hundreds of engineering hours per month to correlation tax. Time that could be spent shipping features instead of hunting for information.
It’s when debugging (understanding what went wrong) takes longer than fixing because the information is in a bunch of different places: Sentry, Stripe, LogRocket and several APM tools.
So engineers spend hours playing detective: copying request IDs between tools, matching timestamps, manually piecing together what happened.
Most teams lose hundreds of engineering hours per month to correlation tax. Time that could be spent shipping features instead of hunting for information.