Hacker News with Generative AI: Metrics

I got OpenTelemetry to work. But why was it so complicated? (iconsolutions.com)
A number of our customers have recently been asking whether we support OpenTelemetry, the observability framework and toolkit. When the first member of the team who’s client-facing asked me – the go-to guy for metrics and logging at IPF – I barely let them finish: “of course! That’s just Prometheus and Jaeger, right? We’ve supported that for years!”

OpenTelemetry, Observability, Metrics, Logging, Software

291 points by paltaie 8 days ago | 187 comments

OKRs for Evil and Good (jessitron.com)
My work does not reduce to measurable outcomes. Much of what I accomplish as an engineer and as a developer advocate amounts to creating conditions that make it more likely for the company to succeed. I resist and resent most metrics, yet I don’t mind OKRs the way Honeycomb does them.

Software Development, OKRs, Metrics, Productivity

39 points by zdw 26 days ago | 9 comments

Ask HN: Light self-hosted logs/metrics/traces dashboard? (ycombinator.com)
I’m aware of enterprise scale observability tools like ELK stack and datadog.

Self-Hosted Tools, Monitoring, Logging, Metrics

20 points by z33k 64 days ago | 9 comments

Ask HN: What SaaS metrics turned out to be completely useless? (ycombinator.com)
Ask HN: What SaaS metrics turned out to be completely useless?

SaaS, Metrics, Business, Startups

15 points by tech_voyager 72 days ago | 3 comments

YouTube tests removing viewer counts (tomsguide.com)

YouTube, Social Media, Metrics, Video

15 points by qwertox 80 days ago | 10 comments

Goodhart’s law isn’t as useful as you might think (2023) (commoncog.com)
Goodhart’s Law is a famous adage that goes “when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”

Goodhart's Law, Data Science, Metrics, Optimization, Business

140 points by yagizdegirmenci 83 days ago | 81 comments

Show HN: GitInsights – a lightweight developer metrics platform (github.com/marketplace)
GitInsights is a minimal engineering metrics platform.

Software, Developer Tools, Git, Metrics, Open Source

9 points by jeffreyjsatx 86 days ago | 1 comments

OpenObserve: Observability platform for logs, metrics, traces, analytics (github.com/openobserve)
🚀 10x easier, 🚀 140x lower storage cost, 🚀 high performance, 🚀 petabyte scale - Elasticsearch/Splunk/Datadog alternative for 🚀 (logs, metrics, traces, RUM, Error tracking, Session replay).

Observability, Open Source, Logging, Metrics, Analytics

85 points by thunderbong 86 days ago | 66 comments

I screwed up and want to apologize: We're lowering the price of metrics by 200x (twitter.com)

Business, Apology, Pricing, Metrics

31 points by jurajmasar 95 days ago | 1 comments

Using DORA metrics to coach teams (zarar.dev)

Software Development, DevOps, Team Management, Metrics

30 points by recroad 178 days ago | 6 comments

All metrics are scar tissue (unless they're Business Intelligence) (sysadmin1138.net)