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Re:I got OpenTelemetry to work. But why was it so complicated? by chrisweekly on Friday January 10, 2025 @03:59PM (#42660142)
huh? I've always heard and read and experienced that "logs, traces, metrics" are the 3 legs of the observability stool.
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Re:I got OpenTelemetry to work. But why was it so complicated? by niftaystory on Friday January 10, 2025 @04:12PM (#42660293)
Open teleMETRY

Any guesses as to etymology?

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Re:I got OpenTelemetry to work. But why was it so complicated? by ffsm8 on Friday January 10, 2025 @04:55PM (#42660715)
By this logic, you can say that logging, metrics and tracing are all fundamentally just different kinds of data and we should be calling it just plain databases and CRUD.

They're related, but people have a very specific idea and concept of what each is, you haven't actually provided a good argument why we should throw out these distinctions just because they somewhat resemble each other if you ignore a few details

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