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P95/P99 latency spikes while CPU, memory and error logs look healthy. Where do you look next?

Tests whether you suspect tail-latency causes invisible to average metrics -- GC pause spikes, lock contention, a slow downstream dependency affecting only some requests, or connection pool queueing -- since healthy aggregate metrics with a tail-latency problem points at something intermittent, not systemic.

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