For argument's sake (abuse is down the hall): 1. My understanding of UDP being lossy typically refers to it happening via transit but your example is an endpoi

For argument's sake (abuse is down the hall): 1. My understanding of UDP being lossy typically refers to it happening via transit but your example is an endpoint failure. 2. Since the whole point of metrics is to keep track of operations then the monitoring of the metrics themselves should be alerting to anomalies?