I’m guessing this is a disagreement on the meaning of “reliable,” and there is room to disagree on that. From my perspective, if your failure model is “it has t

I’m guessing this is a disagreement on the meaning of “reliable,” and there is room to disagree on that. From my perspective, if your failure model is “it has to run” then you don’t really have a failure model and are just hoping for the best. If you have the resources to improve on that approach and formalize expected failure, then OOM logs are another tool that can give you metrics from production while failing operationally. The real benefit is ease of debugging.