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Observability for Vector Search: Why Your Green Dashboard Is Lying To You

Event: Open Source Monitoring Conference 2026

Location: Germany

Dates: 17 November 2026 – 19 November 2026

Presentation: 18 November 2026

Link: On event website

Speakers: Radoslaw Szulgo, Sandra Romanchenko

Dashboards are green – steady QPS, zero 5xx errors, ultra-low latency – yet users report AI hallucinations. Welcome to the silent nightmare of ANN search: recall degradation without infrastructure failure. How do you detect invisible failures? This session maps the four tiers of vector observability: DB internals, index health, LLM performance, and output quality. We’ll explore a production OSS stack (Percona for MongoDB, PMM, mongot, vLLM) and expose where open source still falls short.

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Observability for Vector Search: Why Your Green Dashboard Is Lying To You

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Radoslaw Szulgo

Radoslaw Szulgo

Radoslaw is a Senior Product Manager at Percona and is responsible for driving Percona Software for MongoDB. He has more than 15 years of experience in building distributed applications as a product manager, leader, and software engineer. Radek is an Agile product development enthusiast and a fan of personal development. Outside of work, he’s an amateur handball and volleyball player.

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Sandra Romanchenko

Sandra Romanchenko

Building on a strong foundation in technical support, Sandra is currently a Staff QA Engineer at Percona, where her analytical problem-solving and drive to dig deep into how systems work shape the automation framework for MongoDB.

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