Structured metric namespaces are important in order to have information quickly accessible during incidents. Careful consideration must be given to metric names and dimensions in order to support a wide variety of queries and expansions. One way I’ve found to be effective at modeling flexible metric models is thinking of them as a tree. Thinking of metrics as a tree supports a number of benefits i
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