Research question

How should incident responders reason when telemetry is delayed, sampled, duplicated, or partially unavailable?

Core idea

Telemetry should carry signals about its own quality. Instead of presenting every event as equally reliable, an observability system can expose evidence completeness, temporal consistency, provenance, and confidence.

Public status

This line of work examines high-volume stream processing and evidence integrity during cloud incident response. The public description is intentionally limited to the research problem and externally shareable results.

Why it matters

Incident conclusions are only as strong as the evidence behind them. An explicit evidence-quality layer reduces false certainty and makes gaps visible before they are converted into an incorrect root-cause narrative.

Where the work goes next

Open questions include confidence calibration, cross-source contradiction, preservation during recovery, and how evidence quality should influence automated remediation.