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		flaminHotSpeedo on Feb 28, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: All you need is Wide Events, not "Metrics, Logs an... The whole point of wide events is recording an arbitrary set of key value pairs. How do you propose storing that in a columnar datastore?

phillipcarter on Feb 28, 2024 [–]

I can't speak for others, but at Honeycomb that's what we do. There's some details in this blog post that might be interesting: https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/why-observability-requires-dis...

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