Let’s be honest: Most logs are just noise.
As developers, we too often sprinkle logs like confetti — every function entry, every variable, every heartbeat. Before long, terabytes of meaningless lines pile up, filling dashboards no one reads.
We pay millions of dollars to observability vendors just to warehouse our junk. Every useless log line burns compute, disk and dollars. Logging without intent isn’t observability, it’s littering.
Even with modern observability platforms that dramatically increase compression through columnar…
