**Problem**
I am running a test (T261009) on mwdebug1001 that has severely degraded performance, but sadly this has triggered alerts. This has happened in the past of course, where I am trying to test something, and we get alerts from debug servers. So the question is, does it make sense to not have mwdebug* servers contribute to latency metrics, to error metrics and fire alerts of that sort?
**Proposal**
Create a separate "debug" mwdiawiki cluster, which will have its own dashboards where engineers can look when testing changes there
Pros:
* Better visibility when testing
* Errors will not alert
* metrics will not contribute to production metrics
Cons:
* Scap needs to adapt to this, so when one is testing on mwdebug*, the overall error rate will not prevent scap from moving forward a deployment
Additional thoughts: I don't know if metrics where the x-wikimedia-debug header is present, are included in our analytics data, it is something worth looking into