We had this at Amazon and I built it at Okta because it was confounding that the closest thing was pumping things to collectdb or some other service that would

We had this at Amazon and I built it at Okta because it was confounding that the closest thing was pumping things to collectdb or some other service that would immediately disassociate data from it’s request context into silos or have to wade through unstructured splunk logs (I don’t know if splunk structured logs are viable now). It’s extremely satisfying to be able to query request metrics and aggregate on arbitrary nested attributes when dealing with active issues. It’s probably something I should write about. Even though the idea is not novel, it doesn’t seem to be well supported by any libraries that I’m aware of and causes an impedance mismatch with the ones I knew about several years ago (dropwizard metrics and it’s subsequent derivatives).