All you need is Wide Events, not "Metrics, Logs and Traces"
All you need is Wide Events, not "Metrics, Logs and Traces"
This quote from Charity Majors is probably the best summary of the current state of observability in the tech industry - a total, mass confusion. Everyone is confused. What is a trace? What is a span? Is log line a span? Do I need traces if I have logs? Why I need traces if I have great metrics? The...
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Scuba kinda sounds like what Loki and other "modern" log aggregation tools do: A message field and lots of metadata that is efficiently stored so queries are fast. I do understand the poster's frustration with the "three pillars", and agree that Open telemetry feels over-engineered at times (seriously... what's "baggage"?). But the three pillars really do all have a place! While we absolutely can generate stats from logs, the storage improvements alone from leveraging a TSDB are worth it as we scale. And tracing gives incredibly unique insight into the path a request takes through our systems.