Hacker News with Generative AI: Metrics

Monitoring Node.js: Key Metrics You Should Track (last9.io)
Understand which metrics matter in Node.js applications, why they’re important, and how to track them effectively in production.

Node.js, Monitoring, Performance, Metrics, Software Development

45 points by unripe_syntax 4 days ago | 2 comments

Logs Matter More Than Metrics (hyperdx.io)
Metrics matter. Logs matter more.

Logs, Metrics, Software Development

24 points by mathewpregasen 85 days ago | 3 comments

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

295 points by paltaie 133 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 151 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 189 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 198 days ago | 3 comments

YouTube tests removing viewer counts (tomsguide.com)

YouTube, Social Media, Metrics, Video

15 points by qwertox 206 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 209 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 211 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 212 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 220 days ago | 1 comments

Using DORA metrics to coach teams (zarar.dev)

Software Development, DevOps, Team Management, Metrics

30 points by recroad 303 days ago | 6 comments

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