Beyond Monitoring: Building AI-Powered Predictive Observability for Retail Data Pipelines published

Three numbers before we start: Average detection time with traditional monitoring: 4.2 hours Average detection time with predictive observability: 11 minutes False-positive alert reduction after ML tuning: 73% There is a specific moment every data engineer knows. It is 6:47 AM. Your phone goes off. A VP of Merchandising is asking why the overnight inventory report is blank. You pull up the dashboard. Everything is green. Every pipeline shows "success." Every SLA is marked as met. The pipeline ra