Balancing Cardinality & Cost to Optimize Observability

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Back in the day, monitoring was simple. Proprietary monitoring agents sent infrastructure level metrics like CPU-usage and another agent sent logs to a syslog server to trawl for error messages. However, as applications moved from virtual machine-based monoliths to cloud native microservice architectures running in the cloud, understanding the application and system state became much […]