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Google engineer Bhasker Goel builds comparative monitoring to catch failures before outages start
Technology
Published on 13 May 2026
Instead of thresholds, he compares segments in real time
Google Ads engineer Bhasker Goel is rethinking monitoring for distributed systems by using comparative, real time validation. Rather than relying on static thresholds and late alerts, his approach contrasts system segments to spot subtle divergences that can indicate regressions early. The goal is to prevent costly outages in complex modern software before problems escalate.
- Comparative monitoring checks segments against each other in real time
- It flags divergences that traditional threshold alerts can miss
- The system acts as live validation, not static rule checks
- Designed to stop regressions from turning into outages
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