Hot take of the day: all the telemetry we collect is just a log with different semantics. Metrics? Logs with a float attached. Traces? Logs with a correlation ID. The only difference is presentation, which makes Frontend engineers the most important part of an Observability stack
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@sinkingpoint The data could exist in any format, in any kind of database, if it can't be flexibly queried and visualised well, what's the point?
@sinkingpoint Exactly! Observability the most important part is context and UI. IMHO we’re still lacking good OpenSource UI tooling for Observability
@sinkingpoint That’s what makes Kibana so good despite its million flaws.