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> How would you represent metrics as traces? Just instrument your meter implementation so each observation produces a span. Boom, free metric-derived traces.
by sweetgiorni 1mo ago
> How would you represent metrics as traces?
Just instrument your meter implementation so each observation produces a span. Boom, free metric-derived traces.
- fallingbananna 1mo agoYup. Not a difficult problem to solve. In the code define everything as a span with a name, scope (start-end), description and tags... and then you can easily dynamically produce traces, spans, logs or metrics based on what you need.
- TylerE 1mo agoAt some point your monitoring is burning 10x as much CPU as the actual task...
- jandrewrogers 1mo ago"free". The observability system would greatly exceed the workload being observed in many cases.