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How it works

Enforces a performance floor. It ensures a metric remains above a baseline, functioning as a dead-man switch for system activity.

When to use

• Detecting zero-traffic outages on critical paths.
• Monitoring baseline performance for heartbeats.
• Ensuring resources remain above a minimum floor (e.g., free disk space).

When not to use

• Metrics that naturally go to zero during maintenance or low-traffic periods.

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