As the user base and data density increase, so do the inter-dependencies and fragmentation of said data.

it gets increasing difficult to orchestrate any non-additional change without stumbling onto somebody’s feet

In particular when trying to rename, replace, retire or simply rationalize metric sets, it is near impossible to know the scale and scope of the impact it will have across the organization.

Being able to discover what dashboard and alert consume a given metrics name or namespace would go a long way to mitigate the situation