Apr 18, 2022

Well, Observability puts more of an emphasis on traces over logs and metrics, and even those can (and should be) be baked into traces.

In my previous company, we saw teams trying to do “Observability” primarily with logs and metrics, and it didn’t work. They STILL had difficulty troubleshooting.

Some references:

https://thenewstack.io/tracing-why-logs-arent-enough-to-debug-your-microservices/

https://kislayverma.com/programming/publish-events-not-logs/

https://medium.com/lightstephq/why-tracing-might-replace-almost-all-logging-790c7d7c5c2c

Adriana Villela
Adriana Villela

Written by Adriana Villela

DevRel | OTel End User SIG Maintainer | CNCF Ambassador | Podcaster | 🚫BS | Speaker | Boulderer | Computering 24+ years | Opinions my own 🇧🇷🇨🇦

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