Coinbase (?) had a $65M Datadog bill per Datadog's Q1 earnings call

Re:Coinbase (?) had a $65M Datadog bill per Datadog's Q1 ear... by berkle4455 on Saturday May 06, 2023 @12:16AM (#35837916)

I'm saying most logs are pointless to keep and would be better directed to /dev/null. Keep important transaction related logs and sample the rest.

The notion that every single log or metric across your entire technical architecture is worth keeping is one implanted by SaaS providers with a financial interest in naive engineers doing just that.

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Re:Coinbase (?) had a $65M Datadog bill per Datadog's Q1 ear... by mdmglr on Saturday May 06, 2023 @12:23AM (#35837964)

I agree. Many applications log for the hello of it and log unnecessary information.

We have concepts of debug, info, warn and error… but I think we need apps to be developed with the concept of log concern.

For example take sshd. For infosec they are interested in IP of failed attempts, operations might want to know connection failures, etc.

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