> It would be difficult or impossible with most observabilty platforms to make it parse the http response
Yea, because they've all been built on top of the same faulty assumption. This isn't a counter argument to the OP in any way and I'm kind of surprised you're not the only one bringing this up as some kind of gotcha.
Obviously platforms would need to be handle and treat http and application layers differently. This is as much a given as the fact you'd have to update all your client code to wrap and unwrap the application layer on top of the http layer.
The observability of your application would actually increase as you'd be able to differentiate between an increase in application failure modes from an increase in http failure modes. That's actually really valuable.
Yea, because they've all been built on top of the same faulty assumption. This isn't a counter argument to the OP in any way and I'm kind of surprised you're not the only one bringing this up as some kind of gotcha.
Obviously platforms would need to be handle and treat http and application layers differently. This is as much a given as the fact you'd have to update all your client code to wrap and unwrap the application layer on top of the http layer.
The observability of your application would actually increase as you'd be able to differentiate between an increase in application failure modes from an increase in http failure modes. That's actually really valuable.