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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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