All you need is Wide Events, not "Metrics, Logs and Traces"

Re:All you need is Wide Events, not "Metrics, Logs and Traces" by deathanatos on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @02:17AM (#39534994)

I assumed "wide event" is the internal terminology at FB, given the OP.

I've never personally heard it, but it the context of the OP / metrics/logs/traces, it's a pretty self-descriptive term.

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Re:All you need is Wide Events, not "Metrics, Logs and Traces" by isburmistrov on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @08:02AM (#39537299)

Haha, I think this term is originated by Honeycomb team actually.

Why I prefer "wide event" over "structured log" as a term because it has this "wide" component that serves for 2 purposes: - it highlights the intention of storing as much context as possible - it also hints on the implementation for a system that would serve them. One likely need to use columnar storage to store wide events, there is no way around it

But just a personal preference in the end.

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