Redundancy Is Active. So Why Does Degradation Persist?

You added circuits, verified availability and built an outage playbook. Yet users can still see slow transactions, dropped sessions or intermittent failures while every monitored component remains up.

The issue may be shared dependencies, monitoring tuned for hard failures, or a gap between component health and whether the critical task still works.

This infographic shows the four conditions that allow brownouts to survive redundancy.