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Re:All you need is Wide Events, not "Metrics, Logs and Traces" by flaminHotSpeedo on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @10:10AM (#39538927)
The whole point of wide events is recording an arbitrary set of key value pairs. How do you propose storing that in a columnar datastore?
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Re:All you need is Wide Events, not "Metrics, Logs and Traces" by phillipcarter on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @10:26AM (#39539139)
I can't speak for others, but at Honeycomb that's what we do. There's some details in this blog post that might be interesting: https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/why-observability-requires-dis...
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