> When it comes to automated monitoring, there are two big philosophies, “checks” and “metrics”. There's a third, "events". Just push an event out whenever som

> When it comes to automated monitoring, there are two big philosophies, “checks” and “metrics”. There's a third, "events". Just push an event out whenever something interesting happens, and let the monitoring tool decide whether to count, aggregate, histogram, alert, etc. Events require less code in the app (no storage, no aggregation, no web server), and allow more flexibility in processing. I have used events to great effect. I am baffled as to why monitoring people still only talk about metrics.