Why Wide Events Beat the Metrics, Logs, and Traces Trinity

All you need is Wide Events, not "Metrics, Logs and Traces"

OpenTelemetry's three-pillar model of metrics, logs, and traces confuses engineers and obscures observability's real power. Drawing on his experience with Meta's Scuba, the author argues that wide events—rich JSON-like records capturing everything about a request—let you slice and dice data to solve unknown unknowns. Traces, logs, and metrics are just special cases of wide events, and cardinality stops being a problem.