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As someone who runs SaaS products, this post resonates painfully well. The author is 100% correct: Monitoring should be the most boring tool in the stack. Its
by gtrealejandro 10mo ago
As someone who runs SaaS products, this post resonates painfully well.
The author is 100% correct: Monitoring should be the most boring tool in the stack. Its one and only job is to be more reliable than the thing it's monitoring.
The moment your monitoring stack requires a complex dependency like Kafka, or changes its entire agent flow every 18 months, it has failed its primary purpose. It has become the problem.
This sounds less like a technical evolution and more like the classic VC-funded push to get everyone onto a high-margin cloud product, even at the cost of the open-source soul.
- valyala 10mo agoBoring monitoring software is rare, since it is hard to refuse adding yet another shiny feature (and breaking the core functionality along the way) instead of focusing on improving the usability for the core functionality. We at VictoriaMetrics try making boring monitoring solution which just works out of the box - https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victoriametrics/goals/ https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victoriametrics/goals/