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Wide Events pitch challenges metrics, logs and traces
Original: All you need is Wide Events, not "Metrics, Logs and Traces"
An essay argues that observability teams should replace the traditional triad of metrics, logs and traces with a single approach based on wide events, which capture rich, high-cardinality context in one place. The piece has reignited a long-running debate among engineers about whether wide events, popularized by Cloudflare and Stripe, can truly cover all monitoring use cases or just complement existing telemetry.
Why now: Engineers are debating whether wide events can genuinely replace the established metrics, logs and traces model in observability.
CloudflareStripeobservability engineering
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Evidence
- All you need is Wide Events, not "Metrics, Logs and Traces" · bootlegbilly · 75
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