A municipal database volume cannot keep up with transaction writes even though the VM CPU has free headroom. What bottleneck class should the team investigate first?
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Short Explanation
The CPU is sitting there with free time, but the disk cannot swallow the write flood — like a kitchen with plenty of cooks and a clogged sink. Check storage IOPS and throughput before you buy more vCPU. Wrong bottleneck, wrong fix.
Full Explanation
Storage performance limits (IOPS and throughput) can constrain transactional databases even when CPU is underutilized. Distinguishing storage bottlenecks from compute bottlenecks prevents ineffective vertical CPU scaling. Cloud+ workload optimization requires correlating metrics to the correct resource class.