Logs are for the questions you have not thought of yet
A metric answers a question you already had. The difference is cardinality.
observability
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The dashboard nobody looked at, and the alert that fired every day
An alert that fires daily has trained everyone to ignore it, which is worse than no alert.
Four crash reporters, one shared module, and the traces nobody could read
The reporting SDK is platform code and the crash is in shared code.
There is no Logcat in commonMain, and println is not a logger
Five targets, five sinks, and one of them discards your output silently.
The shared analytics event that meant something different on each platform
Each SDK truncates names, coerces types and limits parameters differently.
A Kotlin crash on iOS arrives without a usable stack trace
The dSYM for the shared framework is produced by Gradle and uploaded by nobody.