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Re:All you need is Wide Events, not "Metrics, Logs and Traces" by pavlov on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @02:02AM (#39534906)
The scale isn’t a problem if you also have Meta’s profit margins. But most businesses don’t…
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Re:All you need is Wide Events, not "Metrics, Logs and Traces" by rmbyrro on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @03:49AM (#39535579)
That's what I don't understand about observability services.

They complicate things so much that it's sometimes more expensive to observe than to RUN the infra being observed.

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Re:All you need is Wide Events, not "Metrics, Logs and Traces" by elbear on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @04:06AM (#39535674)
Sounds like an unaligned incentives issue. Or maybe after a certain scale observing becomes cheaper than running?
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Re:All you need is Wide Events, not "Metrics, Logs and Traces" by isburmistrov on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @07:51AM (#39537199)
I don't think Meta's margins have something to do with this. Companies smaller in scale than Meta also have less data!

And yes, Scuba is in-memory, but it's not the requirement. Check this video out on how Honeycomb implemented their columnar storage: https://vimeo.com/331143124

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