This. I was an engineer at Splunk for many years. I knew it cold. I then joined a startup where they just used metrics and the logs TTLed out after just a we

This. I was an engineer at Splunk for many years. I knew it cold. I then joined a startup where they just used metrics and the logs TTLed out after just a week. They were just used for short term debugging. The metrics were easier to put in, keep organized, make dashboards from, lighter, cheaper, better. I had been doing it wrong this whole time.