Silent Latency Crisis: The Problem OOMKill Alerts Never See

OOMKill events are reporting symptoms, not root causes. The actual performance damage occurs in the 'silent pressure window' preceding any kill event—when memory constraints trigger aggressive garbage collection and allocator contention, degrading latency long before operators receive an alert. This misdiagnosis causes teams to overlook the real issue: systematic memory headroom erosion that will repeat at the next traffic peak.