Observability - Metrics Madness

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) While these four are the building blocks of telemetry data in Observability, all the four components haven&rsquo;t evolved at the same rate. In this write-up, I delve into metrics in observability (mainly custom metrics) and argue how the overuse of metrics…