Having operated a large site with 1000's of services I've never had the metrics thread crash on a service. I've often seen the telemetry pipeline crash. If you

Having operated a large site with 1000's of services I've never had the metrics thread crash on a service. I've often seen the telemetry pipeline crash. If you've been writing the metrics to logs in a thread you at least have a chance to recover and backfill that information when you fix the pipeline.