Owen Diehl's article explores the process of diagnosing and resolving performance issues in Grafana Loki's read path, focusing on a real-world investigation at Grafana Labs. The piece details how the author identified resource overconsumption by a single tenant, which led to congestion and elevated latencies across the system. This investigation involved leveraging Grafana dashboards, Prometheus, and Loki within a Kubernetes cluster to pinpoint the root cause, which was found to be expensive queries with long lookback intervals. As immediate mitigation, scaling the read path and reducing the offending tenant's query parallelism were suggested, along with recommending recording rules for recurring queries. For long-term solutions, Diehl emphasizes scaling the read path further, enhancing instrumentation for quicker issue identification, and implementing better quality of service controls to prevent resource overconsumption by a single tenant. The article offers a comprehensive look at using metrics and logs to troubleshoot and optimize performance in a multi-tenant environment, with the ultimate goal of ensuring a balanced resource allocation.