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submitted 1 year ago by lemmyng@beehaw.org to c/sysadmin@lemmy.ml

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 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.

[-] dotslashme@infosec.pub 3 points 1 year ago

Really good post!

this post was submitted on 26 Jun 2023
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