Practical Observability: Logging, Tracing, and Metrics for Better Debugging - RUBY 656

2721.47 - 2743.141 John Gallagher

You can send off dimensions to metrics and then your metrics bill explodes within about five seconds, especially if it's high cardinality data like IP addresses. I've made that mistake before. We're going to send a dimension of IP with our metrics so that we can understand what's going on. In a week, my manager usually messages me, usually in less than a week, saying, can you turn that off?