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Latency rises only at peak traffic while CPU stays below 50%. What hidden bottlenecks do you investigate?

Tests whether you suspect a resource with a hard ceiling unrelated to CPU -- connection pool size, thread pool queue depth, or a downstream dependency's own capacity limit -- since low CPU with rising latency under load means something is queueing, not computing.

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