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I have recently spent a lot of time at work learning how some services work, and multiple ways they don't work, but today, the last day before I'm off for christmas holidays, most of it all fell into place.
I have now at my fingertips a bunch of code I can push onto a bunch of servers that will trigger them all to save logs, send logs, scrape metrics, send metrics, collecting millions if not billions of lines of data.
I still don't know why though. not a single time in the project did anyone explain to me why they want to save so much data, what will they do with it, for who are they saving it...
I had a meeting with the manager, the boss, the person in charge of the project, he said they historically didn't save any logs and he said it was a good idea to have logs.
this perplexed me, so we're keeping data, using resources, both human and machines, energy and money, to save logs, for the sake of saving logs?
at the end of the day I'm just there for my expertise in getting stuff to work, not to have opinions.
just a bit sad to see such a grand company not have a proper goal for why they do things.