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Monitoring is a Pain - And we're all doing it wrong (including me) (matduggan.com)

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Monitoring and observability tools commit the cardinal sin of tricking people into thinking monitoring is an easy problem. It is very simple to monitor a small application or service. Almost none of those approaches scale.

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[–] mo_ztt 5 points 1 year ago

Quickly this doesn't scale as disk space is consumed storing useless information that served a function during testing but now nobody cares about. "Let's use log levels". Alright now we're off to the confusing Olympics.

I laughed out loud and returned to upvote before reading more.