Comment by perrygeo

I don't know what it is about observability that brings out the over-engineering in us. I haven't actually measured it but I suspect many startups doing things the "modern" way (ie logs, distributed traces, metrics, ci/prod/stage/dev environemts etc going to a dozen different services) generate more metadata than actual data. I mean, we need to observe your systems but ultimately that data is a second class citizen to what we're observing in the first place, the application.

At the most absurd, I've seen observability systems replicated across 3 data centers for an application that hadn't been built yet. But don't worry, by the time it was released, they'd have an observability system so good it couldn't fail (narrator: "It did, in fact, fail.")