I don't like this article. - we are all doing monitoring wrong? No, sorry. - You set up these tools with the mentality of "set and forget" but they actually r

I don't like this article. - we are all doing monitoring wrong? No, sorry. - You set up these tools with the mentality of "set and forget" but they actually require ever increasing amounts of maintenance? The tools and your monitoring rules require maintainance like everything in IT. - Logs OK, don't use logs for monitoring. - Metrics Yes, do use time series for monitoring. - Prometheus is really designed to be running on one server. You can scale vertically ... Actually you can operate more than one Prometheis behind a load balancer, avoiding the situation "when there is a Prometheus problem you lose visibility into your entire stack at once", and without needing to federate them.