On: Toshi: An Elasticsearch competitor written in Rust

[_slyo]

When a customer complains that something's not right, and you check your logs, and the logs have been spewing millions of alarming messages for hours that you wish you had seen before the customer noticed issues, that's when you wish the programmer who wrote the log lines had used the health monitoring framework instead of the logging framework.

[dominotw → _slyo]

> health monitoring framework instead of the logging framework.

What is the difference?

Can you just extract metrics from logs via ES. Logstash even has a prebuilt JAVASTACKTRACEPART for java exceptions.

[manigandham → dominotw]

That user/dev error, not a fault of the system or a problem in handling it all with the same.

Metrics can always be generated from logs, especially structured payloads.