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Why not both? It's not unheard of for a deploy with index issues to cause a load spoke in production. Yes, you need to know about the query to fix it, but also killing runaway queries agree they're obviously orphaned can mean the difference between an outage and a slight site degradation in response times.



Because if you killing queries, you can forget about data consistency. And when data is in such condition, we should never call it "good enough way".




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