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0 pointsmotorest0y ago0 comments

> The problem with hoarding is that, on the whole, the hoarded items are worthless. There’s too much noise and too little signal.

I don't think that's a problem. What turns logs into a problem is misplaced expectations on what is their purpose and how you should use them.

Logs are collected with the express purpose of being ignored, and as a safeguard in case in the future you need to check an audit trail of what you were doing. After a while, once the odds of those logs providing any value drops enough, you can safely delete them.

Your tool is only as good as you make it out to be.

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manmal0y ago

Tools like honeycomb (and observability 2.0 in general) do so well exactly because they solve the very real problem of drowning in log data.

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