A team reports that a metric is missing and proposes building a Grafana dashboard to find it. What is the flaw in this plan?
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Short Explanation
You can't chart what was never collected. If the metric's missing, fix the instrumentation or agent configuration first, not the dashboard.
Full Explanation
Missing data is a collection problem. Building visualizations against it produces empty panels and delays work on the actual cause: an unmonitored technology, a missing sensor, or an agent that is not reporting. A dashboard can only present data that has been collected, so the gap must be fixed at instrumentation or agent configuration. The licensing claim is incorrect because licensing is not the issue described. The Instana-before-Grafana ordering claim is incorrect because no such ordering is required. The Grafana caching claim is incorrect because caching is not why the data is absent. For the exam, separate collection gaps from presentation gaps.