https://akshayd-dev.pages.dev/tags/business/ Recent content in Business on Akshay Deshpande Hugo en-us Tue, 07 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://akshayd-dev.pages.dev/posts/observability-metrics-madness/ Tue, 07 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://akshayd-dev.pages.dev/posts/observability-metrics-madness/ <p>There isn&rsquo;t a single book or article on observability (O11y) where there isn&rsquo;t a mention of MELT. (Metrics, Events, Traces, Logs)<br> While these four are the building blocks of telemetry data in Observability, all the four components haven&rsquo;t evolved at the same rate.</p> <p>In this write-up, I delve into metrics in observability (mainly custom metrics) and argue how the overuse of metrics is turning into madness and directly impacting the cost of observability.</p>