All you need is Wide Events, not “Metrics, Logs and Traces”
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This quote from Charity Majors is probably the best summary of the current state of observability in the tech industry - a total, mass confusion.
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 list of questions like these goes on. Charity - together with other great folks from observability system called Honeycomb - have been doing a great job shedding light on these questions. Yet, per my own experience it’s still extremely hard to explain what does Charity meant by “logs are thrash”,…
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