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

https://matduggan.com/were-all-doing-metrics-wrong/

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@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y

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.

SheeEttin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y

tl;dr: doing work is work, and more complex work requires doing more complex work

dotslashme@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 3y

Really good post!