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                                <a data-type="indexterm" data-primary="monitoring distributed systems" data-secondary="symptoms vs. causes" id="id-JnCDSlFmiG"></a>Your monitoring system should address two questions: what’s broken, and why?
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                                The &#34;what’s broken&#34; indicates the symptom; the &#34;why&#34; indicates a (possibly intermediate) cause. <a data-type="xref" href="#table_monitori