Anyone else think tooling is getting expensive for no reason? E.g: New Relic

Re:Anyone else think tooling is getting expensive for no rea... by mvdtnz on Sunday August 20, 2023 @05:28PM (#37203083)

And what happens when your system scales out to 2 hosts? Now you have 2 txt files - no big deal just query them both. Now what about when you scale to 16 hosts? 100 hosts? What about when your system is composed of dozens of services all managed by different teams with different logging philosophies? And hosts are created and destroyed dynamically, where should the txt files go?

Tools like New Relic are not designed for small products that can run on a single host with logs in a txt file. They provide value when systems scale.

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Re:Anyone else think tooling is getting expensive for no rea... by throwaway154 on Monday August 21, 2023 @10:07AM (#37209732)

Firedoors in buildings are built to standards. There's standard lighting directig occupants towards a fire exit. A quota of fire exits to seats / floorspace / etc exists. Stair cases need to be of a certain width. Quite a bit more. Buildings across a country are built to these standards, and when they're not tragic things can happen.

This isn't to say all buildings are identical. Or save the same purpose. Or exist in the same climate. Or even have occupants that speak the same language. But do share a core philosophy that despite individual developers' or architects' preferences for wood or concrete, in the case of a fire a building's occupants should be provided safety.

Logs should be more like fire exits and less like fragile works of art. As I can find my way to a fire exit in hopefully any building, I should be able to deal with several .txt files.

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