We use wide events at work (or really “structured logging” or really “your log system has fields”) and they are great.

But they aren’t a replacement for metrics because metrics are so god damn cheap.

And while I’ve never used a log system with traces, every logging setup I’ve ever used has had request/correlation IDs to generate a trace because sometimes you just wanna lookup a flow and see it without spending a time digging through wide events/your log system. If you aren’t looking up logs very often, then yeah it seems browsing through structured logs isn’t that bad but then do it often and it’s just annoying…