Inside an Adobe Commerce Black Friday War Room: The Metrics That Matter When Traffic Spikes
A merchant tells you: “Our servers are only at 40% CPU, so everything looks healthy.” Five minutes later, customers cannot complete checkout. Both statements can be true. Infrastructure Health Is Only One Layer During peak traffic, teams need visibility across four layers. Infrastructure Monitor: CPU memory disk latency network database connections PHP workers cache hit rate Application Watch: response time PHP exceptions HTTP 5xx responses slow database queries search latency queue depth cron backlog Third Parties Your site may depend on: payment → tax → address