2020 Solar PV Performance

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I use an aftermarket Efergy electricity monitor. It has a 15 second data refresh rate and the graph was 1 min intervals. It turned out there were some scattered clouds that day. I did notice that sometimes scattered clouds cause it to clip more. Wonder if the sunlight is increased briefly by the clouds?

This April will be 4 years on my SE 5000 inverter and 20 optimizers with zero issues.

Ok, that explains it. It didn't look to me like a screenshot from SE monitoring portal, so that's why I asked if it was a different monitoring platform. Makes perfect sense now with the higher granularity, those downward spikes would coincide with the passing clouds.
 
This seems to be a pretty good collection of Hearth solar experts here so I wanted to ask a question.
I also don't want to derail this thread so I've asked it here on one of my prior posts here.
I'd really reappreciate your thoughts and replies.